To the confusion of our enemies.

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.

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.

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.

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.