Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

My life is pretty well at peace, and the profession is more of an avocation. It's a calling, if you like, rather than a job. I do what I feel impelled to do, as an artist would.

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

Reply when questioned on the safety of the polio vaccine he developed: It is safe, and you can't get safer than safe.

I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.