Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

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

There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Your say is not yours unless you say it

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up like they were electric or something. Electric lilies. Lighting up the Valley.

[David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.

The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles.

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.