The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Be that self which one truly is.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.