When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.