Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.

Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit.

Seeking is not always the way to find.

The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one.

The cross was two pieces of dead wood; and a helpless, unresisting Man was nailed to it; yet it was mightier than the world, and triumphed, and will ever triumph over it.

Curiosity is little more than another name for Hope.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

A youth's love is the more passionate; virgin love is the more idolatrous.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking: when listeners refrain from evil-hearing.

People cannot go wrong, if you don't let them. They cannot go right, unless you let them.

Always, there are some goodness in bad and something bad in goodness. It is the balance of life.

Being a pioneering reformer is all fine and good, but it does leave one terribly in want of agood party!

Defect-free software does not exist.

Weddings and funerals are when you figure out who your real friends are.

This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth.

The sad truth is that societies that demand whistleblowers be martyrs often find themselves without either, and always when it matters the most.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.

There is only one thing I can say about the Shah- he knows how to draw a crowd.

Not everybody is cookie-cutter. You just can't be. There are too many variables in life.