The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

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.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

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

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

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