"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
"An inventor is a man who asks 'Why?' of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind."
"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see."
"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between."