There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means "I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.

Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.