Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

The color and shape of flowers are a precise record of what bees find attractive

In life do what you want. Becauseyou'll regret it later on when you can nolonger do it

Pray for guidance and follow your intuition.

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.

Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?

I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt