When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we should involve the violet and the tree frog in our departure.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

We cannot pluck a flower witout disturbing a star.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

The survival spirit

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit at home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper.

I was raised to have value for money, to have respect for money, even though you have a lot of it.

If we can make America great again and if we can get everybody working and bettering their lot in life, then this becomes the great country that it once was, that it's ceased to be.

Tell Yao Ming, 'Ching-chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.'

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

May we show increased kindness toward one another, and may we ever be found doing the work of the Lord.