People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.