The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
The path of nature is, indeed, a narrow one, and it is only the immortals that seek it, and, when they find it, do not find themselves cramped therein.
Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.