The most powerful moral influence is example.
You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
I never joined the army for patriotic reasons.
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.
The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
Children's authors don't talk down or patronise their younger readers.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
Tonight the thoughts of the dead are turning back to the earth.
Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
Read a lot. Write a lot. Have fun.
I went from having 50 listeners to 50 million listeners.
The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
I'm not interested in an imaginary world.
