“When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves.”

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

I have found little ‘good’ about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Without love we fall ill.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

Public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.

There are no mistakes.

If youth knew; if age could.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

If you want your wife to listen to you, then talk to another woman; she will be all ears.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

Perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.

Motivation is overrated, environment often matters more.

Why come into an environment and complain about being in the environment and still do the work!

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

In America, I don’t know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we’re in danger.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.