Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

When he leaned in to kiss me, the future swirled before me, bright as sunlight on creek water.

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.

With my art, it's the one thing that I know will outlive me and outlive my feelings. It will outlive my depressive seasons.

Don't engage with people who are bullying. And as difficult as it might seem, it's not personal, it has to do more with them. But it's something THEY have to work on.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.