A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

Britain cannot compete with China or Taiwan on price; we compete on skills, on arts and culture.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.