[Nuclear weapons] now I think I mentioned around 27,000 and during the Cold War the total global arsenal was on the order of 70,000.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation. My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.

It doesn't seem to be that huge a commitment that would create, you know, some kind of really powerful constituency. But the history has been for the United States and Russia especially that nuclear weapons have kind of become part of the identity of the countries.

The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.