Matter and energy are the same thing, that size is an illusion, and that time is a material substance.
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families. Richard said, There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thi...
You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we have to create i...
You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.
William James wrote: Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest, which co-mingle their roots in the darkness underground. Just so, there is a continuum of cosmic consciousness,...
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
We don’t have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
We are a generation which is crying loudly to tear down all structure in order to find freedom, and discovering, when order is demolished, that instead of freedom we have death.
Trust easily come by can vanish as easily.
There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. Even little ones, like your cooking stew over your Bunsen burner. You may be i...
The writing of a book may be a solitary business, it is done alone. The writer sits down with paper and pen, or typewriter, and, withdrawn from the world, tries to set down the story that is crying to...
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
The breaking of the harmony was pain, was brutal anguish, but the harmony kept rising above the pain, and the joy would pulse with light, and light and dark once more knew each other, and were part of...
The answer has something to do with love. Love that has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The light spread until the patch of Dark Thing had vani...
So the challenge I face with children is the redemption of adulthood. We must make it evident that maturity is the fulfillment of childhood and adolescence, not a diminishing; that it is an affirmatio...
She felt that she was being measured and found wanting.