If there is a conflict between the easy drift of prosperity and the ordeal of peace, the ordeal of peace comes first.

Intelligence and the spirit of adventure can be combined to create new energies, and out of these energies may come exciting and rewarding new prospects.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

Why are people more appalled at what they term an unnatural form of dying than by an unnatural form of living?

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

The possibility of war increases in direct proportion to the effectiveness of the instruments of war.

The American people are beginning to think in new ways about health and illness . . . Bernie Siegel is helping to define and open up these new frontiers. In this sense he is in the best medical tradition.