Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.