Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. 

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time. 

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.