I didn't want to go to sleep knowing I would just wake up in the morning.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

If you don’t like a language, you can go write your own.

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

There are people who think contraception is immoral because the object of copulation is procreation. In a similar way there are people who think the only reason to read a book is to write a book.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

Plant the seed now, enjoy the fruit later.

a true leader must be able to command with an iron fist, not just a humble heart.

The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

I teach about suffering and the way to end it

A thought for today: 'People change and forget to tell each other.'

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent

Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike.

Dream better than the best you know.

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth.