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"I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do."

"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."

"A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)"

"It's time to reappreciate the original software: paper."

"It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain."

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, thereare still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waitingto be born."

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality."

"People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."

"It's a very good historical book about history."

"For NASA, space is still a high priority."

"Love is the self-delusion we manufacture to justify the trouble we take to have sex."

"The scientific community having made a rapid ascent from deep poverty to great affluence, from academe's cloisters to Washington's high councils, still tends to be a bit excitable - not unlike a nouveau riche in a fluctuating market."

"Big machines are the awe-inspiring cathedrals of the 20th century."

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

"All autobiography is self-indulgent."

"Calculations which required a $20 million machine eight years ago can be done on a Mac cluster costing about $11,000."

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.

"Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'"

"Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!"

"Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive."

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."