I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

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.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.