When women can cherish the vulnerability of men as much as men can exult in the strength of women, a new breed could lift a ruinous yoke from both.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

People on horses look better than they are. People in cars look worse than they are.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

love yourself first, and you will always be in love.

Everything is only a transition

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

We do not follow a health and wealth savior. We follow a homeless and wounded Savior.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.