There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.