A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.

Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.

The human mind can appreciate the One only by seeing it first in the Many.

There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.