Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

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.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

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

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.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.