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

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.

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

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!

The neocortex is not like a computer, parallel or otherwise. Instead of computing answers to problems the neocortex uses stored memories to solve problems and produce behavior.

I have this insane and unabated longing for San Francisco. I come up there every chance that I get.

There are a lot of things that people are doing unconsciously wrong.

May God richly bless you, my beloved.

The secret of masonry is to keep a secret.

I just enjoy playing in wind, grew up in it, and it makes the golf a bit more fun.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.