You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

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

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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

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.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

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

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.