If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

Singing a melody is like a lot of easier and when you sing harmony you have to really kind of know music and listen to the music and be able to hear the notes or whatever.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

As long as you are convinced you have never done anything, you can never do anything.

Being president of the University of California is like being manager of a cemetery: there are many people under you, but no one is listening

If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.