I love the fall. I love it because of the smells that you speak of; and also because things are dying, things that you don't have to take care of anymore, and the grass stops growing.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

The literature of the world has exerted its power by being translated.