The teacher must herself be excited if she is to sell her goods. And she can do an exciting job in stirring the student without herself knowing all the answers.

What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

If I want a word, I make it. I don't like combustion. It's too quiet. I have some stuff in a state of combustication.

She could never be part of so much of his turbulent history, his youthful adventure, where life had been deeply felt.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

It is the acme of life to understand life.

As in the war of 1941-45, our victory and our survival depend on how and where we attack.

For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

Patience is being at peace with the process of life

A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

For I am nothing if not critical.