I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom which has poisoned the world withering at the roots.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.

Reading keeps me sane. Growing up, it was my scape, my alternative; it provided both rebellion and peace.

"I'm going over the valley." (Dying from throat cancer, his doctor found him wandering around his room, asked him where was he going?)

To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country.

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

I have prayed with the families and wept at the funerals of Hoosiers who did not shrink from 9-11 but grew into heroes whose names will forever be engraved in the heart of a grateful nation.

True love, is the love that seduces and will never allow itself to be seduced.

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.