A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

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

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

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

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

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

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.