The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

Those who are offended by something are most often those who deserve to be offended by it.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Reality trumps rationality.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

Marry me, Zelda. We'll make it all up as we go. What do you say?

Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.

Man adapts himself to everything to the best and the worst.

People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.

I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.

It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

I'm not a crazy old cat lady!

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.