Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they are basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. 

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Books are indispensable. You can move from hard copies to soft copies. But that’s about it.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Religion and slavery are incompatible.

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Science creates scientists...who creates godmen?

Distraction is just another form of attraction.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.