A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Society is now one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, The Bores and the Bored.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

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

I am not now That which I have been.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Freedom lies in being bold.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.

I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open