We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

We pamper the present like a spoiled child, obeying its superficial demands but ignoring its real needs.

The happy individual is able to renew daily and with full consciousness all the basic expressions of human identity: work, love, communication, play, and rest.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Written truth is four-dimensional. If we consult it at the wrong time, or read it at the wrong place, it is as empty and shapeless as a dress on a hook.

Nothing in her world aligns to the surreality of her dreams. She can feel his presence, his warmth, his depth of intent pressing against her.

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

There is a great difference between satisfaction and satiation.

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

I just keep thinking how lucky I am that I haven't had to sacrifice anything.

I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.