Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not.

We call it the transmission of the lamp in Zen. That's when we take enlightened states of mind and literally, you can transfer them, just like you can hand somebody flowers.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

I don't just look at the thing itself or at the reality itself; I look around the edges for those little askew moments-kind of like what makes up our lives-those slightly awkward, lovely moments.

It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment.

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.