As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them.

Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries are the soup, the meat, the vegetables, the salad, but bread is king.

Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an answer to their questions.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

I don't have the acting skills my daughter has.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

I have spoken to Einstein and he admitted to me that his theory was in fact no different from the one of Parmenides.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.