The development of beings with minds is probably the highest individuation the world has ever known, and its prehistory is the history of life on earth.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level.

Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The Labs.

The people I look up to the most - politicians, actors, artists - are the people who manage to do a high-powered job while staying themselves. They aren't afraid to be nice.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

Happiness comes from serving others.

The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

NLP is an attitude and a methodology, not the trail of techniques it leaves behind

Stupid Sixteen year old kid falling from the sky! I'm late!

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.