If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.

I never read to kill time. Killing time is like killing someone's wife or a child. There is nothing more precious for me than time.

To torture a man you have to know his pleasures.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.

We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

I felt myself being invaded through and through, I crumbled, disintegrated, and only emptiness remained.

Furious and wild with fear, the potatoes flailed the air with their leaves and stamped their roots, but obviously this got them nowhere.

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value.

No one knows me. Not anymore

Palaces are for the little men not for the great men because great man is humble!

Wikipedia celebrates its 12th birthday today. Of course, I have no idea if it's true. I read it on Wikipedia.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.

Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms and no legs.

Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.