You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

Let my notes, like the most sensitive seismograph, record the curve of even the most insignificant vibrations of my brain: for it is precisely such vibrations that are sometimes the forewarning of...

WORLD WITHOUT PEACE IS NO WORLD AT ALL BUT WORLD WITH PEACE IS TRULY A BEAUTIFUL AND MOST ALIVE WORLD TO LIVE IN.

Challenges are the core of life’s nuclear reactor, the uranium rods are your decisions and the energy generated is your success

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

Being asked to play 'The Doctor' is an amazing privilege. Like the Doctor himself I find myself in a state of utter terror and delight. I can't wait to get started.

Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

Dogs are fine in the field.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

In 'Futurama,' the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.

Half the guys drafted in front of me are working at Target right now.

A skylark wounded in the wing, / A cherubim does cease to sing.