You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Why change the world when we can change ourselves?

1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

There is no way to peace; peace is the way.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter if he was God or not?

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC

Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.