Courage is grace under pressure.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Thought is free.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

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