To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.

Tales of triumph are my favourite.

Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.