As long as we believe in absurdities we shall continue to commit atrocities.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice; therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.
Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.
We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
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.
All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.
One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy.
Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.
The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.