It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

They know enough who know how to learn.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Holy mother of rectangles.

Freedom without discipline is foolish, discipline without freedom is insanity.

Night descended on Roarhaven like a woolly blanket of blackness with holes in it that were the stars.

I would love to be considered Zen, but I'm not sure that I am. Maybe just with animals and babies and in tough situations.

If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.

It signified nothing that the raw, male magnetism that emanated from him probably made compasses malfunction in his presence.

My dear boy, please don’t put a label on me—don’t make me a category before you get to know me!

Violence is the instinctive response to fear.

She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.

The next time you drop my jacket, I'll drop you!