Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Our greatest foes - and whom we must chiefly combat - are within.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

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

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

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Give up trying to make me give up

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Once you label me you negate me.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?