Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.

If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having.

Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal.

Note even Moroi give licenses to infants, Sage,

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Thousands of people know my flannel knickers, and though I know this may seem flirtatious, it is not. I am a saint.

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

Usually, I play the bad guy, so it's been a pleasant break to play a good guy.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.