See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

Things never happen the same way twice.

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.