It is always a sad thing to understand those who once were obscured by the mystery and intangibility of the thoughtlessly loved.

If we accept, as we must, the theory of the indestructibility of matter, no less must we accept the indestructibility of the spirit with which matter is informed.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and takes with it your whole real life.

No one has the right to demand that your body be something other than what it is.

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

In each mirror, each moment A new face reveals His beauty.

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth