The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Men grow when inspired by a high purpose, when contemplating vast horizons. The sacrifice of oneself is not very difficult for one burning with the passion for a great adventure.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

Religion brings to man an inner strength, spiritual light, and ineffable peace.

It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained.

drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.

War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

I must have been chosen because I know it all from beginning to end. I am certainly not the story itself. I am only the grass that tattles on the wind.

Every time you survive a horrible storm you start thinking that you are immortal and this is the most negative and the most dangerous part of self-confidence!

I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Pro football is a game; not a war. It's for win or lose, not life or death... but say that in the summer, for winter brings the playoffs, and a season is at stake.

When you live in a watershed area, in a pristine area, and you could watch this whole place fall apart in front of your eyes, you don't sell your soul for a buck.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.