In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.

Marriage is holy and it's private.

Nature is subtle and complex.

..we all have to do things in this life that we don't like..

First smile!! An unseasonal little shower of rain fell here, and a lot of butterflies drowned, so we put them in the sun and they came back to life, and flew up and then Agaat SMILED!

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.

What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.

I learnt to drive at around eleven years old. In an old jeep on a field in Colorado. There were lots of ditches. I could barely see over the steering wheel.

More than anything else, if you can spend a great deal of dedicated time observing people without judgment, that can be a great way of learning.

It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

Reading isn't the opposite of doing, it's the opposite of dying.