for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

Better to wear out than to rust out.

After all these years, it's still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye.

If we want to know history, I would think there would be every reason to.

This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men.

You make me proud to spell my name woman... you make me proud to be your friend.

Our mission of empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more is really a look back to the very creation of Microsoft.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

Life is beautiful. It's about giving. It's about family.