Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

You can't make love without art.

So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would "lief" or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go.

To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important. By going out of your mind, you come to your senses.