The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, and the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

Everyone is related to Africa; everyone comes from Africa. We are all distant relatives.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position of a great machine.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.