Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.

Humankind is now caught up, as though in a train of gears, at the heart of a continually accelerating vortex of self-totalization.

Nature is a totally efficient, self-regenerati ng system. IF we discover the laws that govern this system and live synergistically within them, sustainability will follow and humankind will be a success.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument

If you say that you’re humble, you’re not humble. You gotta wait until somebody tells you that you’re humble

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.

Those who are governed by reason desire nothing for themselves which they do not desire for the rest of humankind.

It’s all right for a woman to be, above all, human

I don’t hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise

The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious

We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.