Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

If someone tells you he is going to make a 'realistic decision', you immediately understand that he has resolved to do something bad.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

We are the hero of our own story.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

I just want you to know that I love you with everything I am—a million times a million and to the moon and back.

I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something.

I have always been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right....Dead, but right.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Everything is sacred and nothing is sacred.

All of you have now lost your virginity... in Physics!