My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. 

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. IS considered the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Knowledge is a body of information.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something. 

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so know so little about the ocean, and so much of it is being destroyed.