...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

He is the only option for better living.

Public office is a public trust.

But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.

I guess every musician looks forward to a point where they can just kind of make an album that truly is like a nice art album.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

Like some helpful person (hi, Mom) has tried to "'clean'" it, and suddenly you can't find anything?

Life is a gift. Never take it for granted.

The big powers are traveling on the dangerous road of armament. The signpost just ahead of us is 'Oblivion.' Can the march on this road be stopped? Yes, if public opinion uses the power it now has.

Every important idea in science sounds strange at first.