Oh Tigger, where are your manners?” “I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

There was something comforting about having a vast hydrogen furnace burning millions of tons of material a second at the centre of a solar system. It was cheery.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.

In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay of possibilities, probabilities, good luck and bad, that weaves its way throughout the length and breadth of the tapestry. In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.

Material things ain’t nothing, you feel me? At the end of the day, it’s who you are. You wasn’t born with it; you gon’ die without it.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

Every one is more or less master of his own fate

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.