The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

Happiness is a kind of gratitude and vice versa.

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

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

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