Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

Freedom is from within.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.