There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.

Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race.

The word "wilderness" occurs approximately three hundred times in the Bible, and all its meanings are derogatory.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

The holy writings are my greatest inspiration.

Pray within. Stay within. Seek, find the Within. For, there's no heaven or hell or god anywhere but herein.

You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one's ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I'm afraid the time for choice is behind us both.

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are

If we stepped away from so much of the victimhood talk, I think that would make a big change for the better. It does limit art. The conversation wouldn't just be one-sided.

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.