"The Way is harshness greeted with kindness, fear greeted with fortitude."

"Timesharing just doesn't work."

"The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

"There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well."

"You won't learn much about capitalism at a university. How could you? Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't have much to do with either."

"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him."

"What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain."

"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having."

"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

"Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another."