The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.