It is a futile and ridiculous struggle—but then... it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.

Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured.

We are all, he says, the sport of destiny. Ah, but not quite. Destiny is an intelligent force, moving with purpose.

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual indigestion in an ordinary mind.

With you it is always the law, never equity.

What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward.

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience."Possibly. But I like my madness.

You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.

It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

It takes two seconds to tell the truth and it costs nothing. A lie takes time and it costs everything.

Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Let's face it.., our current [immigration control] system is like a busy intersection without a traffic cop: sure there are laws on the books, but absent enforcement, there are too many accidents.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.