We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

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.