Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.

Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever.