Empirical research has shown that quality tends to be the consequence of quantity when it comes to creativity... Those who produce more masterworks also produce more rubbish.

In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic.

When you love this world, this world becomes yours.

I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

I see and approve better things, but follow worse.

We must be ruthless with ideas, but gentle with people.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.