You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

Nothing happens until something moves.

Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay.