“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Truth is a tendency.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

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.

I never have a problem with the weight cut. My number one enemy is injuries because I train so hard.

Nobody wins ‘em all. If you come down on them too hard for losing, they’ll stop sticking their necks out.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

So think long and hard about who you’re spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

As an actor you’re only supposed to be a lover. I am a romantic hero though I don’t like that tag. With all the hardships, problems, illness, goodness, badness, awards and money. An actor will always be a lover. And a lover makes mistakes. You’ll be silly, nonsensical and stupid.

Sometimes when you’re putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work’s going to pay off.