You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

It is always the teacher who must learn the most... or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.