We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?

I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.