God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

The purpose creates the machine.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

While other creatures of the evolution are just watching the universe, man alone has the power to change the fate of the universe.

Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership.

I have nothing to lose. My personal casualty means nothing.

Thanks to the toleration preached by the encyclopedists of the eighteenth century, the sorcerer is exempt from torture.

Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.

I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

I can be shy when I talk to women. I'm a shy dude.