Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

The fear of love can be replaced by the love of fear

Eli: People had more than they needed. We had no idea what was precious and what wasn't. We threw away things people kill each other for now.

The fascist state is the corporate state.

New York is the only city that I have ever lived in that I have felt at home.

He's got great credentials by winning the World Cup, but he did it with Brazil - my granny could probably have managed Brazil to World Cup success.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

I leave scientists mentally scarred, Triple Extra Large, Wild like rock stars who smash guitars.

Obsess about customers, not competitors.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.