The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to happen to a person ... To speak as though it were an objective knowledge, like the date of the war of 1812, misses the point altogether.

Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence.

The meaning of life cannot be told; it has to HAPPEN to a person.

A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

A foolish man enjoys the company of prostitutes

The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.

I had studied violin from age 7 to 14.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

I was lucky to get the kinds of parts I wanted. I always said I didn't want to do anything my kids can't see.

I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

There's nobody I look up to, really.