You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be.

We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.