The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

When you discover your gift the whole world will seek you

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

The secret of my success is a two word answer: Know people.

First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.

The old Lena is dead.

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.

Our world has always had two kinds of changers, the social changers and the money changers.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.