It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.