Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens

[War] might be avoidable were more emphasis placed on the training to social interest, less on the attainment of egotistical grandeur.

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

The years of peak mental activity are undoubtedly between the ages of four and eighteen. At four we know all the questions, at eighteen all the answers.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

There are many kinds of people in the world. Are you one of them?

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Once you've written TBicycle, you never forget how.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia.