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I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

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Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

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There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

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Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.

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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

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Pathos, piety, courage,

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