"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."

“If I could go into the woods and kill a bear myself, I'd wear it proudly as a trophy.”

“Editors and reporters are not as free and independent to invite a variety of opinions as they might think. They are free to say what they like only as long as their bosses like what they say. They are free to produce what they want if their product remains within acceptable political boundaries. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when your stray that you feel the restraining tug.”

“I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.”

“You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2008). “Be Who You Want, Have What You Want: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life”, p.42, BookBaby

“After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.”

“In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

Source : Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

“Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!”

“Countries with the best-resourced medical services have the best outcomes for physical illness (it is better to have a heart attack in Washington or London than in rural Africa) whereas precisely the opposite is the case for mental illness (developing nations with limited psychiatric resources have better outcomes and lower suicide rates).”