"The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy. (“Tomorrow”)"

“Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.”

“Ah, I don't do interviews, really.”

“I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.”

“We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.”

Source : R. Buckminster Fuller “World Game Series: Document 1”, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

“Happiness is total and complete satisfaction with yourself”

“I think every young actor in Los Angeles went up for that role. It was between Frankie Muniz and me, and he pulled out, so I got the role.”

“All women who kill or have sexual obsessions or who are prostitutes have trouble with their fathers.”

“There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.148, Penguin