Second only to freedom, learning is the most precious option on earth.

The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together.

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.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.