Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men?

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.