It is a sad truth that those who crave and seek power, invariably abuse that power once they obtain it.

What is the point of having all this power if you can’t force people to do what you want?

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that somehow you have to find a way to think that it happened for a reason.

There is not a single truth of science upon which we ought to bet more than about a million of millions to one.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

I just learned that, even though in a past life, I was a model, too.

Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!

Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time and transmit to following generations.

If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Don't ever take a shower with a woman, because you'll probably end up proposing to her.

There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.