You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.

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

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.

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.

The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten.

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

Out of struggle very often comes victory.

Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you.

A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.

Each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way.

I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the "pay for use" binary shareware programs.

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words