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.

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

The purpose of education is to enable us to develop to the fullest that which is inside us

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as he did only thirty or forty years ago. Being "educated" today requires not only more than a superficial knowledge of the arts and sciences, but a sense of inter-relationship such as is taught in few schools. Finally, being "educated" today, in terms of the larger needs, means preparation for world citizenship; in short, education for survival.

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.

Laughter is inner jogging.