I understood that centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.

For the coming of that day shall I fight, I and my sons and my chosen friends. For the freedom of Man. For his rights. For his life. For his honor.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask.

For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?

We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.

This box is useless, " said Alliance 6-7349.Should it be what they claim of it, " said Harmony 9-2642, "then it would bring ruin to the Department of Candles.

People's realities are the result of their perceptions.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

The little man is still a man.

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone.

I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.

If Zen has any preference it is for glass that is plain, has no color, and is "just glass."

The moral is that it is necssary to innovate, to predict the needs of the customers, and give him more. He that innovates and is lucky will take the market.

Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more.