Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

If I'm not free to fail, I'm not free to take risks and everything in life that's worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.

Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.