The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Boards don't hit back.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

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

Every man's memory is his private literature.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.

Sunlight is painting.

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.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

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.

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

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.