My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.
The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Genius is sorrow's child.
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
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.
Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.
