"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"I have often wondered how it is that every man loveshimself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."

"It is a radiant truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea."

"Of the two, I would think of my work as closer to Science Fiction than Fantasy."

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident they came by work."

"The business of America is business."

"Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness."