Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

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

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.

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.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

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

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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

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

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

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