Attention is everything -- If you never noticed, it never happened.

Attention is decisive. What holds attention determines action.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

Attention is vitality — It connects one with others and makes one eager.

Certainty is foolish ---- It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

Certainty is impossible — we see through a glass, darkly.

Certainty is an absurd one.

Certainty is dangerous — Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Civilization is a religion whose incense is gasoline.

Civilization is true civilization when it provides that every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

Civilization is a path paved with tax receipts.

Civilization's every monument is a monument of barbarism

Climate is a theory while weather is a condition.

Climate is the weather in a foreign country.

Climate is what you expect, but weather is what you get.

Climate is distinguished from weather in that climate lasts all the time; while weather lasts only a few days.