I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Courage is grace under pressure.

We princes are set as it were upon stages in the sight and view of the world.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

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

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

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.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.