I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Effective action is always unjust.

I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.