Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Racism is America's greatest disease, racism is a disease of the white man.

Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.

Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep your mouth shut

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

The state was made for man, not man for state.