Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

To surrender one's vulnerable body to water has always seemed to me a limpid act of will that has no coutnerpart or equal, unless it is sex.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.