“I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.”

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.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

So after a while, if people won’t accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.

After ‘Game of Thrones,’ having a character like that, that’s like the pinnacle of your career.

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.