Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
To be adult is to be alone.
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
One kills a man, one is an assassin one kills millions, one is a conqueror one kills everybody, one is a god.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
God, that dumping ground of our dreams.