It is never the machines that are dead. It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.

America is a tune. It must be sung together.

Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

Christmas it too large to be tucked away in the toe of a child's stocking.

We may have hell if we have war, and we may have hell if we have peace. But if we have no vision for what we do, we have hell anyway.

Crowds speak in heroes.

No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it.

I lost my dad. He lost his tomorrows and I lost all the tomorrows with him. You could say that now, I appreciate them when they come. Now, I want to make them the best they can possibly be.

Look at the John Birch Society. Look at Hitler. The reactionaries are always better organizers.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

I really believe being a good listener is important for anybody, and particularly for somebody who wants to be a leader.

It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

If it grows, eat it. If it doesn't grow, don't eat it.

It is a fascinating and provocative thought that a body of water deserves to be considered as an organism in its own right.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it.

We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.