We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time.

On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come, I suddenly experienced the universe as intelligent, loving, harmonious.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it's disastrous.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.

The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.

I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it.... It is time to open this up to the public.

Transforming the complex to the simple is pure genius.

What are we saying when we say now, something is holy? That means you should take a different attitude to what you are doing than if you were, for example, doing it for kicks.

A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.

I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

To be counted in the world's top 10 of anything I guess gets eyeballs.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

Instagram is a great example of you just doing your thing.

When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.