He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

Thought is free.

Charity ... is the opium of the privileged.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

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

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

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

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

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.