We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

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.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you -- without you asking.

My life is a reading list.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Dont test me, Second guess me, Protest me, You will DISAPEAR! (East Jesus of Nowhere)

Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

Even in this room full of proud Manhattan Democrats. I can't shake that feeling that some people here are pulling for me ... I'm delighted to see you here tonight, Hillary.

I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.

A little praise goes a great ways.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.

Love doesn't suit the lazy; sometimes it requires strong, precise actions.