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“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

“You see, but you do not observe.”

“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”

“Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.”

“Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring.”

“(on "I Don't Get Down Like That" the Swedish group Play pop song) There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.”

“There are only two types of people in this world: those who die for freedom and those who died for their religions. Both are considered martyrs.”

“I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.”

“We're not who we used to be
We're not who we used to be
We're just two ghosts standing in the place of you and me
Trying to remember how it feels to have a heartbeat”

“If you make it, great. If you miss it - what's there to be afraid of?”

“I consider all the prophets to be my brothers in the faith. All the conquerors are also my brothers in the introduction of civilisation on Earth.”

“What an artist dies in me!”
Qualis artifex pereo.

“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

“You can have more children only according to your ability to feed them.”

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”

“I never submitted to the Italian government: I only had conversations with it.”

“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”