The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

There must be opportunities for judgment to mature. When, therefore, you increase your business to a very great extent, and the multitude of problems increase with its growth, you will find, in the first place, that the man at the head has a diminishing knowledge of the facts and, in the second place, a diminishing opportunity of exercising a careful judgment upon them.

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.

A girl without a needle is like a cat without a claw.

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

With deepest veneration and fellow feeling, I clasp your hand on the occasion of your eightieth birthday. I know of no other person who combines such profound intellectual gifts with such self-renunciation while finding the whole meaning of his life in quiet service to the community. We — all of us — thank you not only for what you have accomplished and brought about, but also because we feel happy that such a man should exist at all in this time of ours, which is so lacking in genuine personalities.
With reverent greetings....

Feelings change — memories don’t.

Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.

Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.

It does not pay to scold. I believe you can get people to do anything (if you can get them to do it at all) by loving them into doing it.

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, war. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out…and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man — with his mouth.

Strive for integrity — that means knowing your values in life and behaving in a way that is consistent with these values.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

Next time you catch yourself inappropriately using one of the autobiographical responses — probing, evaluating, advising, or interpreting — try to turn the situation into a [Emotional Bank Account] deposit by acknowledgment and apology. [For instance, "I'm sorry, I just realized that I'm not really trying to understand what you are telling me. Could we start again?" works wonders.