A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends.

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.

During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice.

Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most.