Archived Quotes

Music is the only thing that makes me feel like I’m not alone.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem.

It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving

an existing one.

Society is always taken by surprise

at any new example of common sense.

The banality of evil.

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

Pure mathematics is,

in its way,

the poetry of logical ideas.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty,

but I never cared about acceptance as much as

I cared about respect.

If you give people tools,

and they use their natural abilities and curiosity,

they will develop things…

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Lock up your libraries if you like;

but there is no gate,

no lock,

no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey

and car keys to teenage boys.

Never throughout history has a man

who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

They did it to try and belittle me,

to try and to take away my pride.

But I went through the whole system with them.

And at the end,

I

I wanted the public to know that I was okay,

even though I was hurting.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

You’re my boy,

Blue!

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,

we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless,

unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

There is a charm about the forbidden

that makes it unspeakably desirable.

We still do not know

one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity

until it had ceased to be one.