I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.