“People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.”

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

God is a verb, not a noun.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Each one of us could make the difference.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

I have this thing about being acknowledged and accepted by institutions.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.