“A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.”

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

God is a verb, not a noun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Each one of us could make the difference.

The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a wage.

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

Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous.

That was a good fight back in the gym, he said. But i think you could benefit from a few more boxing lessons.

I’ve survived quite a few generations. That’s because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us.

“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.

When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.