The artist Nature often achieves greatest effect when not working with a full palette.

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

The only way to understand something is to be confronted by something that is difficult to understand.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability.

Philosophy is not one truth, but thousands of truths. You don't have to believe in just one thing. When you chose one idea, you close yourself to the rest.

Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.