Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Our levels of consciousness and awareness define our wants and needs. When we achieve higher levels of consciousness, our wants cease to exist.

Judge Samuel Alito, millions of Americans are concerned about your nomination. They're worried that you would be a judicial activist who would restrict our rights and freedoms.

Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.

There is in the blind as in the seeing an Absolute which gives truth to what we know to be true, order to what is orderly, beauty to the beautiful, touchableness to what is tangible.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.

One thing you can say about nuclear power: the people who believe it is the silver bullet for America's energy problems never give up.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.