"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

"I only drink fortified wines during bad weather. Snowstorm, hurricane, tornado--I'm not particular, as long as it's bad. After all, any storm for a Port."

"The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars."

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

"No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect."

"If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time."