The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Maybe this world is another planet?s hell.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.

We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!