Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.