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

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

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

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

There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.