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

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 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.

You have had many successes, and you have earned the right to be respected.

Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

You ought to endure and complete your own race of life.

This is our world, and we must make the best of it.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

Any way that you can get the end result is valid, whatever it takes.

Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.

...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.