The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.

We were all born with webbed feet and a golf club in our hand.

A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don't intend to act on. But you can't have a goal you don't intend to act on.

Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.

The unlived life is not worth examining.

Faith sir! She looks like the Old Course.

I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.

I want my life to mean something!

Madness is part of all of us all the time and it comes and goes waxes and wanes.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Ive lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Anyone who would attempt the task of felling a virgin forest with a penknife would probably feel the same paralysis of despair that the reformer feels when confronted with existing school systems.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.