There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. Not space travel, not the fifty colonized worlds that were now so haughtily independent, but the City.

The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.

Bible: Various portions of it, when properly interpreted, contain a code of behaviour which many men consider best suited to the ultimate happiness of mankind.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

To win the heart of men, always be yourself.

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation

If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

Hail, mute devil! You are the most intense animal. An eternal mystic of the fleshly inferno.

We need to face the fact that we need more money in order to deliver Jeremy Hunt's absolutely correct drive to guarantee even better standards of care.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

Imagination is the first step in creation whether in words or trifles. The mental pattern must always precede the material form.