The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

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

A jug fills drop by drop.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

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

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

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