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

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.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Life will either shrink or expand based on your decision to have courage.

I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

The only marriage I've observed for any length of time is my parents - 35 years. I asked my pop, I go, 'Pop, 35 years - what do you hope for?' He's like, 'I hope you die first.'

Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.