If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

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

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

Sunlight is painting.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

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

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

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

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.