"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

"The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe."

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

"Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there."

"I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do."

"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."

"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."