Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for.

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.

I have found a dream of beauty at which one might look all one's life and sigh.

His life was gentle and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world This was a man!

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

There was no one in particular I really tried to copy.

The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it.

If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!