"Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction."

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering."

"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet."

"Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life."

"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles."

"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."

"We are not free, separate, and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way."

"Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary."