Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

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.

He loved her, he loved her, and until he'd loved her she had never minded being alone....

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

Touch Me, but not with your hands.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

I'm not a developer; I am.

Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills.

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.