It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize how much you love them.

If you do something only for money, you will never succeed at it.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

Envy is ignorance, imitation is suicide.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Unlike human beings, computers possess the truly profound stupidity of the inanimate.

[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.