2206  Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

1514  Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

1646  The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.

905  Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

997  Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.