“Don’t fight forces, use them.”

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees.

One in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Truth is a tendency.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

An original idea. That can’t be too hard. The library must be full of them.

The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.

I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.

I can’t handle the paparazzi. They’re everywhere. One of them was in a dumpster trying to take my photo the other day. It was crazy!

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I’m on stage they’re not privileged to see me. It’s a privilege for me to see them.

I didn’t have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.