But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.

The message from the moon which we have flashed to the far corners of this planet is that no problem need any longer be considered insoluble.

Words have to be crafted, not sprayed. They need to be fitted together with infinite care.

Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.

The heart of the matter is that some people like to cause injury or death to living things. And many of those who do not are indifferent to those who do.

Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.