God has given me a mule-like stubbornness to stick with a difficult problem and the intuitive powers to conceptualize complex hypothetical situations in my mind.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.