Religion is the opiate of the masses.

Most of our imports come from other countries.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.

Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.