It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did.

Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

It’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Africa is on the rise.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.