The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

There's only one thing in life more dangerous than a bad idea, and that's a good one.

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.

Early to bed and early to rise, and you'll meet very few of the best people.

In the States it's more and more difficult to get an independent film off the ground, and you certainly wont get the opportunity to play something like that in a studio movie.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

Never allow anything that divides or destroys the oneness of your life with Christ to remain in your life without facing it.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

I can generate attention quickly.