Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.

The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.