A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.

Thinking is hard work; that's why so few do it.

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

I know that philosophically a murderer is not responsible for his crime, but I prefer not to take tea with him.

Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing.