Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do with its worth as anything the author puts into it.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
We will not have peace by afterthought.
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.
Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.
Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.
The essence of man is imperfection.
The life-force may be the least understood force on earth.
It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.
What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.
History is an accumulation of error.
Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.
Nixon’s motto was, if two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life.
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.
The main trouble with despair is that it is self-fulfilling.
Death is not the greatest tragedy in life. The greatest tragedy is what dies inside us while we live. We need not fear death. We need fear only that we may exist without having sensed something of the possibilities that lie within human existence.
Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.