There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second.
When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw your taxes.
Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.
Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.
To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
With a modem, anyone can follow the world and report on the world-no middle man, no big brother. I guess this changes everything.
There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.
One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.
If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life.
The war and terrorism in the Middle East, the crisis of leadership in many of the oil-supply countries in the developing world, the crisis of global warming - all these are very clearly tied to energy.
We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.