Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

Do as much as possible for the patient, and as little as possible to the patient.

In my view, the lost art of listening and ignoring the patient as a human being is a quintessential failure of our health care.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.

I see nuclear weapons as the ultimate evil, not just evil, but the ultimate evil with the potential to make life unlivable on this planet.

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

Nuclear weapons will not be gotten rid of until the United States confronts the magnitude of the horror, the tragedy, and the long-term suffering of the victims

I think that Gnosticism is about discovering the way that God has turned into you, and then realizing that if you can describe how it is that God turned into you, you can reverse the process.

There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.

What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure

... only love begets love.

As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?

We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.

Like integrity, love of life was not a subject to be studied, it was a contagion to be caught. And you had to catch it from someone who had it.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.