When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

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.

Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

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.