Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

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

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

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

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

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.