The human landscape of the New World shows a conquest of nature by an intelligence that does not love it.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that

Hardly has the universe stretched its wings to spanWhen it gathers to egg once more

Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.

I don't like being on my own. I'm happy meeting people and collaborating.

I am not so think as you drunk I am.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

More is not necessarily better. BETTER IS BETTER.

Gandhi, who went to Wendy's and asked, "Where's the belief?" Never got a dinner!