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 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.

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

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

Magic was merely the unknown, a wild thing undefined by logic or reason. By that thinking, surely she was not Bad Luck, but Good, undefined.

The darkness of sin is a cords of deceit.

Sometimes just when I say hello the right way, I'm like, 'Whoa, I'm so cool.'

I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.

Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'

The man who succeeds must always in mind or imagination live, move, think, and act as if he had gained that success, or he never will gain it.

The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things that you do.

Feel the joy .. feel the happiness.

Fortunately for me, I'm in this unique business of not singing, not dancing, not performing - just kind of being there.

It's hard to get up for a good high-school team like the Chicago Bulls.