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

Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

Where there's tea, there's hope.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

If you only do what you know and do it very, very well, chances are that you won't fail. You'll just stagnate, and your work will get less and less interesting, and that's failure by erosion