While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.

Did life treat everyone so wantonly, ripping the good things to pieces while letting bad things fester and grow like fungus

Many pastors have been reduced to secular "mentors" and "coaches" in exchange for authentic disciplers of men.

I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

Getting even throws everything out of balance.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.