I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Never underestimate that a small group of people can hold up a liquor license. Sometimes, it's the only thing that can.

An education not founded on Art will never succeed.

Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the prophet looks in the mirror with a disillusioned and cynical sneer, the scientist goes fishing.