"Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn."

“When I race, I don't think about it; it just happens.”

“Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.”

“I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves”

“We are seeking another basic outlook: the world as an organization. This would profoundly change categories of our thinking and influence our practical attitudes. We must envision the biosphere as a whole with mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive inter-dependencies.”

Source : "Robots, Men and Minds". Book by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, p. 57, 1967.

“The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the form of a gene, but the lantern doesn't penetrate more than a couple of hundred feet. We don't know whether we're going to encounter chasms, rock walls or mountain ranges along the way. We don't even know how long the path is.”

“Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would do it... Directing is playing. Acting.”

“The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.”

Source : "Finally, the Role Marian Seldes Was Born For" by Dinitia Smith, www.nytimes.com. August 8, 1995.

“A human being sheds its leaves like a tree. Sickness prunes it down; and it no longer offers the same silhouette to the eyes which loved it, to the people to whom it afforded shade and comfort.”