The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Wars are the hobbies of half-informed children who have somehow come into possession of the levers of power.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Kids esteem themselves when they have accomplished something worth esteeming.

Those who wash regularly should not stoop to democracy.

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

Speak from the heart and feel your tension melt away.

All decisions we’ve come to accept as right or wrong are ingrained in us from the society in which we abide. Rights and wrongs are not universally known or transferable.

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper.

If only falling in real life love were this easy. Take a big breath and open your eyes

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree