I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

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

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

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

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

A lie never lives to be old.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

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

Ah just act the way ah feel.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.