Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description and analysis of the experiential world.

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life.

Only ignorant people think they have all the answers, intelligent people are full of doubts.

Only the fearless made proceed. Brave ones, foolish ones. Both walk not the middle road.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.

Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.

Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.