I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.

I thought if I could understand why apes get mean and horrible and aggressive when they grow up, maybe I could understand why people get mean and horrible and aggressive and have wars.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn’t dead yet. I think.

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

You can't truly hate someone you've loved. You can only hurt.

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

The key to happiness is not to make yourself into a different person; it is to let yourself be even more of who you really are.

I was born a Brahmin, but I'm not a Brahmin