The odds of all this happening are much greater than one in 10 billion, but it needs only to happen once.

It is easier to laugh at the past than at the future.

We are not saying our culture is superior to yours. Merely that our cultures had a disagreement and we won.

To truly live, one must be willing to die at any time. This does not mean risking ones life on a fools errand or in a show of some alleged 'strength'. It merely means that one must be ready to declare some conditions intolerable and refuse to accept them, whatever the price. That's what I admire about the indians. They simply refused to be enslaved.

Nothing could be so boring and so terrible as immortality.

Might doesn't make right, but it does make it easier to be wrong.

Never worry about 'giving people ideas'. For good or ill, each person will know what they want to do with them.

For the time being, using the word pedantic automatically makes you so.

Justice is not, cannot, and never will be. The best we can hope for is an approximation of justice that grinds out the proper decision most of the time.

Things could be better. They could also be worse. Both statements are true and helpful.
There is no optimism or pessimism.

I often forget that people have as much responsibility for the governing and direction of the state as rulers.

You can show me your beatiful suburban town, and my only question will be how many tons of pig-iron you produce a year.

So much of life is depressingly impressive.

Sterilize Illiterate People.

I'm not your friend, but we don't have to be enemies.

The pen is as mighty as the sword.

My general feeling is that we all die, our civilization will be destroyed, our sun will burn out, our planet will break apart, and eventually our universe will cease to be, but that doesn't diminish anything that happens between now and annhiliation.

You must negotiate with terrorists. To refuse to parley is to become as unreasonable as them.

Wisdom is knowing when to be patient and knowing when to demand.

Every Life is Boring. Especially your own.

Justice is done, but we have only regret.
Mercy is done, but we have only regret.

Patience is folly as often as it is virtue.

Because justice is blind, she is easily decieved.

The ease of ones life says nothing about the quality of it.

The Heroes

Richard Fiynmann
Francis Bacon

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Karl Kraus