Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

The numbers of distinct human societies or nations, when our race is twice its present age, may be far greater than the total number of all the men who have ever lived up to the present time.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

The West needs to relearn what the rest of the world has never forgotten - that there is nothing sinful in leisure as long as it does not degenerate into mere sloth.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.