In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.

If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

Pictures made in childhood are painted in bright hues.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Bit by bit, I was becoming the almost acceptable face of homosexuality.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler's bidding.

For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right.