In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.