The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.

There is one quality more important than know-how.... This is know-how by which we determine not only how to accomplish our purposes, but what our purposes are to be.

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.

There are no answers, only cross references.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

Ascension to successive echelons in the pyramid of awareness is an act of inclusion requiring unconditional acceptance of all that lies below.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

Today I will take the opportunity to do unanticipated good.

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

A human being is part of a whole called by us the universe.

When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

I'm asking you to make at least some of your Christmas giving important.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

Just entering into the dharma and taking refuge and bodhisattva vows is a tremendous amount of merit, but we need more and more and more.