Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive.

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.

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

We are most of us governed by epistemologies that we know to be wrong

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Life was good, one had only to live it.

How do I work? I grope.

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

Make films whenever and however you can - don't take no for an answer.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

The strategy of winning is gaining personal power. There are no techniques to learn that will cause you to win. You need power, balance and wisdom to win and to learn from your loses.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God.