Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?