"I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife."

"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."

"The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?"

"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."

"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

"I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures."

"To master the mind is to understand that the truest form of bravery is vulnerability."

"The simplest truths often reveal that the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."