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.
There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Dare to risk public criticism.
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Jests that give pains are not jests.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.
The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.
In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
