The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

To me faith means not worrying.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it’s bottled.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.