Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.

Power is the pivot on which everything hinges. He who has the power is always right; the weaker is always wrong.

Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can’t stiffen up enough to create them.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions

Let's get this out in the open once and for all. Here is how I feel about compression... Compression is for kids!!!!

Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end.

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

I am really cautious about what I say and do.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.