Let us not deceive ourselves we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves more and more peace and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

I did not want to be a tree a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body we as audience must see ourselves not the imitated behavior of everyday actions not the phenomenon of nature not exotic creatures from another planet but something of the miracle that is a human being.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because in the last analysis we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.