The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.
The real wealth, not only of America, but of the world, is in the resources of the ground we stand on, and in the resources of the humankind.
At a Dodger baseball game in Los Angeles, I asked Will Durant if he was ninety-four or ninety-five. “Ninety-four,” he said. “You don’t think I’d be doing anything as foolish as this if I were ninety-five, do you?”
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
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.