To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

The most important thing to teach your children is that the sun does not rise and set. It is the Earth that revolves around the sun. Then teach them the concepts of North, South, East and West, and that they relate to where they happen to be on the planet's surface at that time. Everything else will follow.

I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.