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

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

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.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

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

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.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

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

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

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

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.