The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.

The silence rings—it is musical & thrills me. A night in which the silence was audible—I hear the unspeakable.

Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself.

It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell, and your trip beginsSeven downward slopesseven bloodied hopesseven are your burning fires, seven your desires...

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?

With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.