I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any.

Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.

It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

I am happy for them all: Angela Hartnett, Jason Atherton, Marcus Wareing, Mark Sargeant.

My changeup looks like a fastball, but one goes straight and the other goes away from the righthanded hitter. Sometimes it cuts by itself, and I don't know where it's going.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

The wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man (or any person) on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less than he is worthy to have.

Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.

Chess is like a language, the top players are very fluent at it. Talent can be developed scientifically but you have to find first what you are good at.