Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

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

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

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

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

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.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

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

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.