. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good

Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

How odd Of God To choose The Jews.