What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Thought is free.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

Show love, compassion, protection & generosity to those who depend on you – in fact, to everyone.

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

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.

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment