Crappy old OSes have value in the basically negative sense that changing to new ones makes us wish we'd never been born.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

The difference between stupid and intelligent people - and this is true whether or not they are well-educated - is that intelligent people can handle subtlety.

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

You should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake.

To condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.

See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places.

Constable Moore had reached the age when men can subject their bodies to the worst irritations - whisky, cigars, woolen clothes, bagpipes - without feeling a thing or, at least, without letting on.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

He is the best fighter who fights with love for the world peace.

God knows exactly where we are and precisely where He wants us and He takes an active role in getting us there.

We are both great men but I have succeeded better in keeping it a profound secret than he has.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

I'm a joker who has understood his epoch and has extracted all he possibly could from the stupidity, greed and vanity of his contemporaries.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

If people try to push me over into the category of not being a major success, I can think to myself, "Well, of course I'm not. I just started!"