Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.