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

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.

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.

Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.

Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like

If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.

It's easy to be a one-hit wonder. It's hard to stay relevant for more than a few years.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.

Marketing is about spreading ideas, and spreading ideas is the single most important output of our civilization.

An individual should not have too much freedom. A nation should have absolute freedom.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.