Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

I never rode a bull - I'm not that stupid.

Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.

It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.

Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.