There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Information is a difference that makes a difference.

What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me to you?

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

Without context words and actions have no meaning at all

And although we adore men individually, we agree that as a group they're rather stupid.

It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds

Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

What Is, is more important than What Should Be.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

We do everything humanly possible, consistent with military necessity, taking many chances to avoid civilian casualties, at all costs.

There is but one poetry,--true poetry.

Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.