Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.

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

To be open to inspiration, one must cultivate a leaning for the problematic, a chronic attraction to things that do not totally fit, agree, or make sense. Inspired ideas are less often solutions to old problems than newly discovered or totally reformulated problems - problems 'created' like brilliant works of art.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

The mind which can totally and inanely forget its work and obligations is often also the mind which can, at the proper time, give them the fullest attention.

Free men and women... can think across time, viewing their own lives, inclusive of past, present, and future, as architectural wholes, static in mental space. They can therefore see, as others cannot, the cracks and buttresses of repeated action, the points of stress, the established framework. They are not perfect; but they are less imperfect than we by a full dimension of being.