Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.

If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

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

To share poetry is one of the most intimate acts of friendship possible.

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.