Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Our intentions tend to be much more real to us than our actions, and this can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding with other people, to whom our actions tend to be much more real than our intentions.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.