Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!"

Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.