One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.