Truth is rhythmical: if it implies stasis, it is platitude. Truth is syncopated: if it supplies all the terms, there is one term too many. Truth is barbed: if it comforts, it lies. Truth is an armed dancer.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.

True teachers not only impart knowledge and method but awaken the love of learning by their own reflected love.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.

The goal of discoverers is not to outdistance their peers, but to transcend themselves.

Those who labor for bread or money alone are condemned to their reward.