W might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two get together.

We might 'conquer' nature if we could first, or at the same time, conquer our own nature, though we do not see that human nature and 'outside' nature are all of a piece.

Money alone cannot buy pleasure, though it can help. For enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

Going to the golf course every day for work? That's a good job.

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

If people could understand how much pleasure they could have by themselves, I think everyone would be a lot saner. I think that people really need a dose of quality time with one's self.

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun!

Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.