In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

There’s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We’re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can’t understand people and I’ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.