I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

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

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

Any place I hang my head is home.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

I'm never going to be disabled. I'm sick of being so healthy.

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

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

What goes up must come down.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

Wrinkles are engraved smiles.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Exceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Don't cry for a man who's left you - the next one may fall for your smile.