We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

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