It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Keep your thoughts clean. the life we are living soon be past.

There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth...we have the capacity to overcome our limits.

In a racially divided society, majority rule is not a reliable instrument of democracy.

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

Just as armor protects the soldier, spiritual knowledge protects us from the difficulties of life.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.

Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.