We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

You can’t really think hard about what you’re doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn’t see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

On the bright side, I'm sure this isn't the last time you'll ever get firebombed, so maybe you'll have better luck next time.

Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew.

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

The man will be most successful who confers the greatest service on the world.

What I am is an encourager. I encourage all who deserve freedom to fight for that. And if you can't win by yourself, then find other people to be in solidarity with.

The CIA will only hire people with impeccable credentials to be a translator. 'Impeccable credentials' means you've never lived outside the United States.

I can't remember much about the early flights, except that it was ages before we got into First Class.

In quietness the soul expands.