We should tend our freedom wisely.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

Humanity rose to the stars, but never found paradise.

Life is science.

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

Somedays you just have to create your own sunshine.

Aure entuluva! day shall come again!

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Venture capital has done much more, I think, to improve efficiency than anything.

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

I always wanted to be one of the hottest rappers.