He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Common sense is not so common.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.