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.

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.

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.

When it aims to express a love of the world it refuses to conceal the many reasons why the world is hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other, and to fail to love it is not to exist at all.

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

To be what no one ever was, to be what everyone has been: Freedom is the mean of those extremes that fence all effort in.