All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

The fundamental motive of true teaching is the love that seeks and studies and performs.

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

The reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.

At pains to define liberty, that most resolute of indefinables, our minds fall back on spatial images; on birds, sailboats, and mountains; the untethered balloon, the blue sky, the nude figure.

That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us.