"Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners."

"We are the total of our longings."

"I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value."

"When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush'' just once."

"I prefer complexity to certainty, cheerful mysteries to sullen facts."

"I was simply furnishing a home. I love music ... and I don't think a $130,000 indoor-outdoor stereo system is extravagant."

"I knew I'd been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said 'Free firewood' and my first thought was 'Who was Firewood and what did he do?'"

"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."

"Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it. Makes you feel warm inside."

"Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore."

"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement."