Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

Or the woman in front of me in the security line who asked if they would put her cat, Dave, through the luggage X-ray machine because she wanted to see if he'd eaten a necklace.

Have I not told youdinosaurs were past glorythey extinct big time.

Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's called interdisciplinary research.

It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.