If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?

When you've got a Chautauqua in your head, it's extremely hard not to inflict it on innocent people.

Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.