But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Boards don't hit back.
Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.
