"I have a theory that theories are destructive."

-- Carl Whitaker

“It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better - all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.”
“It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.”
“If I'm not telling you something, it's for a reason. Just because you trust me, it doesn't mean I have to automatically trust you. Trust doesn't work like that.”
“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.”
“For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.”
“We come from an inconceivable nothingness. We stay a while in something which seems equally inconceivable, only to vanish again into the inconceivable nothingness.”

Source : "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, (1989 - 90).
“I want to be famous but unknown!”
“The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works but rather the way God is. Cheek-turning is not advocated as what works (it usually does not), but advocated because this is the way God is - God is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. This is not a stratagem for getting what we want but the only manner of life available, now that, in Jesus, we have seen what God wants. We seek reconciliation with the neighbor, not because we feel so much better afterward, but because reconciliation is what God is doing in the world through Christ.”

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