There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

But somehow, I feel sure that if I lived in the country for six months, I should become so unsophisticated that no one would take the slightest notice of me.

There are certain relationships that just don't fit into "good" or "bad"; they transcend it.

I just want to help people do better research.

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get rid of.

Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.