It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But a half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

I've known one thing for a long time: there's a role in the big machine even for someone who makes fun of it.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

I'll take a nice assist any day over points.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

It’s impossible to say who has guns in Gaza anymore. The ballots are the only thing that can stop the violence at this point.

If I wish to engage, then the enemy, for all his high ramparts and deep moat, cannot avoid engagement; I attack that which he is obliged to rescue.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul. When men’s passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.