The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

How stubborn life is, It clings like silver in our souls.

Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.

It's crazy how intelligent kids can be at a very young age and how they know what they know.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

The greatest of all contraceptives is affluence.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.