Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.