A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

Effective action is always unjust.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

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

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I am not now That which I have been.

The cure for boredom is curiosity.There is no cure for curiosity.

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

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