We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

To go faster you must slow down.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

Let's all be different same as me.

Sooner or later we're all gone, so no one bothers getting attached.

It was one thing to deal with monsters that were human in appearance. Another thing entirely to deal with humans who were monsters.

I explored because I was feeling really crappy, and I wanted to know why

My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.

In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

I like shitty strip clubs. They look like what they are. I know what to expect. Unlike Congress, at least we know everybody is for sale.

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

I learned how to become wealthy because I asked the right questions when I was broke.

Plans are worthless, but planning is invaluable.