A Name Is A Label, And As Soon As There Is A Label, The Ideas Disappear And Out Comes Label-Worship And Label-Bashing, And Instead Of Living By A Theme Of Ideas, People Begin Dying For Labels... And The Last Thing The World Needs Is Another Religion.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.