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

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

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.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

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

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

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

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

His modesty amounts to deformity.