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.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

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

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

To learn is to change.

Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.