You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

This was an evil beyond thinking. The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of all, the truth, that dangerous stuff, became beautiful and very precious.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.