The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason.

When I'm at home or at school, I'm casual and comfortable. I tend to wear work out clothes and lots of sweaters.

Better than glory, or honors, or fame, (Though I am striving for those to-day) To know that some heart will cherish my name, And think of me kindly, with blessings, alway.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it.

We do not run from the troubles and dangers that are truly ours, and it is better to learn what they are earlier than later, and if we don't run from the others, we are fools.

I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.

The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.