As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
Hurry up, please, it’s time.
We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.
Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.
Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
Distracted from distraction by distraction.
A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.
No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.
Old men ought to be explorers.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
Turn things you’ve always wanted to do, into things you’ve done.
These fragments I have shored against my ruins.
If you want it you must obtain it by great labor.
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.