The American people today are involved in a warfare more deadly than the war in Vietnam, but few of them seem aware of it and even fewer of them are doing anything about it. This is a war that is being waged against the American environment, against our lands, air, and water, which are the basis of that environment.

The essence of man is imperfection.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

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