We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth, " and so it goes away. Puzzling.

To all appearances he was just drifting. In actuality he was just drifting.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

The flame of testimony burns brightly when fed with the oil of grace.

Dark-bright fire lit eyes

We fear extremes and shy away from too much ardor in religion as if it were possible to have too much love or too much faith or too much holiness.

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic!

It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

If you want to talk, it's okay with me. I sit and relax.

There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse.

The more we nourish our internal world, the more powerful we grow in the external world.