ron’s most recent Quotables

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

Why anybody would want to do drugs when there are computers available is a mystery to me.

Faith, noun. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Scriptures, noun. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.

With my luck - Hepatitis!

Idiot, noun. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.

Much of human perception is based not on information flowing into the brain from the outside world but what the brain, based on previous experience, expects to happen next.

The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

When we hold back on life, life holds us back.”

I think that today, in many ways, we've become confused about what real abundance is. In reducing it to something that can be measured in abstract economic terms, we've substituted a concept of abundance for the experience of it.

Society has always been the free man's greatest enemy. And the free man has always been society's greatest friend. How did society treat Jesus, or Socrates, Galileo or Martin Luther King? Yet look what they have left mankind.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

Imagination rules the world.