You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

We donot have to agree; we do need to understand.

Ignorance is a form of environmental pollution.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.