It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Let's all be different same as me.

Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime!

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

The silkiness of his voice was a torturous caress that I could have endured for the rest of my life.

Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

The chains that bind us the most closely are the ones we have broken.

If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Genius requires an audience.

Music is not just my passion it's my companion.

The treacheries of ambition never cease.