I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Give up trying to make me give up

External nature is only internal nature writ large.

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

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

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

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.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.