Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Hate begets hate, violence engenders violence, hypocrisy is answered by hypocrisy, war generates war, and love creates love.

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Any Organized social group is always a stratified social body. There has not been and does not exist any permanent social group which is "flat" and in which all members are equal.

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly.

Are there quantitative aspects to the phenomena of war that can be counted? Evidently!

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that.

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

I hate to sound clichéd, but I do see life as a journey. How else can you see it?

Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

I'm proud that I was able to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did... I sleep clearly every night.

Never try to make Americans or foreigners feel at home - had they wished to feel at home, they would have remained in their own county.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.