Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

So, Eva Nine, you must sometimes disregard what someone is saying and focus instead on what they are doing. Watch and observe. That is when one reveals his true self.

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.

People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it.

Don't judge. Don't stay inside all the time. Get out and let somebody know who you are.

Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.

A better everyday life means getting away from status and conventions -- being freer and more at ease as human beings.

When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

You have to pay attention to money, but it shouldn't be about the money.