The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way.

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.