Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.
I believe the risks I take are justified by the sheer love of the life I lead.
We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction.
Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through the sense of sight. When you see without feeling, you are still partly blind; you lack the inner light that brings awareness. Awareness requires the interplay of every faculty, the use of your entire being as an eye.
I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.
The idea of racial inferiority or superiority is foreign to me. I can't feel inferior or superior to another man because of race, or in any way antagonistic to him. I judge by the individual, not by his race, and have always done so. I would rather have one of my children marry into a good family of any race than into a bad family of any other race.
We are all consumers and should all be producers.
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
We are disturbed about the effect of the Jewish influence on our press, radio, and motion pictures. It may become very serious. (Fulton) Lewis told us of one instance where the Jewish advertising firms threatened to remove all their advertising from the Mutual System if a certain feature was permitted to go on the air. The threat was powerful enough to have the feature removed.
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.
Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.
I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many -- myself and humanity in flux.
Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
We are compelled to work more hours per day, receive less pay per hour, pay more for what we buy, and recieve less for what we sell. The consequence is that we must work harder and more hours per day than we should, and in the end have less than what is due to us as our part of the advantages, conveniences and opportunities resulting from advancing civilization.
Is civilization progress? The challenge, I think, is clear; and, as clearly, the final answer will be given not by our amassing of knowledge, or by the discoveries of our science, or by the speed of our aircraft, but by the effect of our civilized activities as a whole have upon the quality of our planet's life-the life of plants and animals as that of men.
I would rather live one day in Maui than one month in New York.
It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
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