It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

You can't test courage cautiously.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.