"We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power."

"Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him."

"This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true."

"Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential"

"Either do, or do not, there is no try"

"I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best."

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

"Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source."

"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters."