The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.

It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

You will not find it difficult to prove that battles, campaigns, and even wars have been won or lost primarily because of logistics.

Of course, parents are the most important people in a child's life.

It was a death struggle every day being a Yankee you either won or you lost. There was no second place. Half of us were nuts by the end of a season.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

Soul, what have I to do with you?

An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.