How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

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

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Dare to risk public criticism.

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

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

You cant have a plan for your day, til you have a plan for your life.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.