Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.

All the raves were just words. You don't want to let words confuse you. Words come cheap.

Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

No praying, it spoils business.

I'm not very precious at all, which I think people find surprising.

Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.