It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Ultimately you should follow advice not because someone tells you to, but because it was something that you already knew you should be doing.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Education is a complex, multifaceted, and painstaking process, and being gifted does not make this less so.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nevertheless, likin' is a tender plant, and never thrives long when watered with tears. Let the 'arth around your married happiness be moistened by the dews of kindness.

Life wastes nothing. Over and over again every molecule that has ever been is gathered up by the hand of life to be reshaped into yet another form.p 259

You have to appreciate the readers, without them there are no stories worth telling.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

There is never a problem child; there is only a problem parent

There are many things a man will do, but betrayal for a price is not one of yours.

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

American democracy is supposed to be the paradigm for the rest of the world.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.