These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

Fascism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.

The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

My dear cousin has a very odd relationship with fear -- though mostly she's too busy to be bothered with it.

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou, then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.

I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.

The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.

Engineering is a creative practice.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

Photography seems to fix, but this is an illusion created by our short lives. A photograph is merely a note held for 200 years.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!