“Man knows so much and does so little.”

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

Don’t fight forces, use them.

Those who play with the devil’s toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Tension is the great integrity.

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

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

I was like, boy, I feel so good when I run, if everybody could feel like this, this sense of joy and physical well-being and strength and autonomy you have when you run, how much better the world would be, you know?

There’s not like this separate caste system where it’s like, “I’m the musician, you’re the audience. Never the two shall meet.” It was a case where it was like, “Hey, you know what? I’m on your level, man.”

Hopefully, we’ll come to know in a few years whether it can become one of the great films.

I’d wake up some days and go “Oh, I don’t even know if I want to go face this anymore”. I would, I would go do it, I’m a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.

A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he’s like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

I don’t know….Are we the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, all the brave people live here I mean, it’s just stupid, I think. I’m embarrassed, I’m embarrassed every time I hear it.

STRATFORD SUCKS!’ Am I supposed to run after these guys? I’d just stand there, you know. They’d back up. ‘STRATFORD SUCKS! …STRATFORD SUCKS!’ I’d say, ‘I know. I go there. You’re wasting gas, man.

It’s one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it’s another not to be able to live by what one does know.