It is hard for people to think clearly because their emotional needs keep getting in the way. The trick is to make thinking clearly an emotional need.

Don't waste time making enemies. As long as you're active, you'll have plenty.

The easiest way to be inscrutable is to be completely straightforward and honest. Then no one will be able to figure out what you’re up to.

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Revolutionary behavior and violence are usually only indulged in when people are at their wits’ end. So social stability depends a lot on how long their wits are.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.

Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.

Majority of people don't see the amount of work and years ambitious people invest behind the scenes, but as soon as they succeed with their dreams, they would insinuate that they were lucky.

Winning isn't imperative, but getting tougher in the fourth quarter is.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

There's nothing so dangerous for manipulators as people who choose to think for themselves.

I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.