I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Humility is to make a right estimate of one's self. It is no humility for a man to think less of himself than he ought, though it might rather puzzle him to do that.
If your children want to alter society, listen to their reasons and the idealism behind them. Don't crush them with some clever remark straight away.
To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
Conservation must become before recreation.
I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.
Be neither too remote nor too familiar.