Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.

A good name, like good will, is got by many actions and lost by one.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.

Who doth right deeds Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.

How far you go in life is determined by how tender you are with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with those striving, and tolerant with the weak and strong, because some day in life you will have been all of them.

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Liberty is the right to do as the law permits.

I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.

Government, in its very essence, is opposed to all increase in knowledge. Its tendency is always towards permanence and against change...he progress of humanity, far from being the result of government, has been made entirely without its aid and in the face if its constant and bitter opposition.

As sure as ever God puts his children in the furnace, he will be in the furnace with them.

For science is . . . like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.

...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.