All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

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

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.