Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

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

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.