Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing and just delighted with any manifestation of yourself, bad or good. For true listeners know that if you are bad-tempered it does not mean that you are always so. They don't love you just when you are nice; they love all of you.

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.