If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in their relations with Russia in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.

While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool.

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.

It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.