“We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.”

I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.

Human history in essence is the history of ideas.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive ‘policies’ and ‘Plans’ of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word ‘socialism’, but what else can one call it?

Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature – it’s the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.

18th century scientists, the French in particular, seldom did things simply if an absurdly demanding alternative was available.

My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.

In another couple centuries I’m sure that worldview won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it.

Christianity had the great religious wars of the 17th century. Islam, fortunately for the Muslims, did not have that. Christianity worked out a system of toleration. Islam was always more tolerant of Christendom.