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.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

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

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

Nothing is black or white.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Genius is sorrow's child.

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.