Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.

It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.

I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

There are things which cannot be carried through even with the good will of everybody concerned

Love the pride of the conquered nations, and leave them to honour their father and their mother.

Do you know a cure for me?""Why yes, " he said, "I know a cure for everything. Salt water.""Salt water?" I asked him."Yes, " he said, "in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.

Come now and let us go and risk our lives unnecessarily. For if they have got any value at all it is this that they gave got none. Frei lebt wer sterben kann.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

Search this world and find that being who you feel has the greatest light and become their apprentice.

The causal structure determines the rate and method of evolution, your awareness of the universe.

We are coming to see that there should be no stifling of labor by capital, or of capital by labor; and also that there should be no stifling of labor by labor, or of capital by capital.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

Everybody else, they're wonderful, but [Robert] Duvall sets the tone for all of cinema acting. So just to be in his space was amazing.

I publish things that in my judgment are good science.