Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

By the time you are 88 years old, you "have consumed 300 tons of food, air and water."

History's political and economic power structures have always abhorred 'idle people' as potential troublemakers. Yet nature never abhors seemingly idle trees, grass, snails, coral reefs, and clouds in the sky.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.