After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.

It's a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research & study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

Results only come to those who master the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, of letting go as a person in order that the immanent and transcendent unknown quantity may take hold. We cannot make ourselves understand; the most we can do is to foster a state of mind in which understanding may come to us.

The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.