Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.