The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

What can we give a child when there is nothing left?

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.