A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

No gun is perfectly true. So the marksman, that he may hit the bull's-eye, points elsewhere.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

Dumbness and silence are two different things.

Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.

It means they engineered the spirit to have a negative effect on the imagination.

Yes, his ear. I was attracted to his ear. While I was in church. I'm pretty sure that solidifies my position as the weirdest person on the planet.

I love it, " I say. "So I learned it." It's an explanation that leaves a lot out. But I learned a long time ago that people don't really want explanations.

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body.

When you are learning a new technique, practice it wholeheartedly until you truly understand it.

There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.