"The whole is more than the sum of its parts."

"Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it."

"To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it."

"Maybe most people were fundamentally contradictory. The real people at any rate."

"There exists a false aristocracy based on family name, property, and inherited wealth. But there likewise exists a true aristocracy based on intelligence, talent and virtue."

"Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass."

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space;everything else is opinion."

"Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes."

"Rap music... sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."

"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong."

"Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion."

"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."

"In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest."

"Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen."

"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy - but because they are hard! Because that challenge is one we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone and one we intend to win!"

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set it free."

"Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused."

"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."