Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

Those who have the FREEDOM to Row can get to where they want to Go!

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

You cannot be a light to others or yourself, if you have dark intentions in your heart.

I've never bought a sports car.

Nine-tenths of all existing books are nonsense.

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish.

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams.

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.