Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Do not rush in the ride of life.

Short prayers with long legs travel far.

Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.

We need to start thinking about the needs of the American people before we go and solve everybody else's problems.

Do I understand this right? I'm being marked down?

Our cup will truly run over only after we have sealed the character cracks.

If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples' lives for the better.