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.
Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
Never accept a drink from a urologist.
Will and intellect are one and the same thing.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.
What is to give light must endure burning.
There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality
I want to put a ding in the universe.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
I'm not afraid of dying I just don't want to be there when it happens.
For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.