"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."

Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

You can do this by disciplining yourself to be selective in what you read, see, hear, say to yourself and the influence of others.

People who copy you will always be one step behind.

The collection of taxes which are not absolutely required, which do not beyond reasonable doubt contribute to the public welfare, is only a species of legalized larceny.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.