Modern life seems to recede further and further away from nature, and closely connected with this fact we seem to be losing the feeling of reverence towards nature. It is probably inevitable when science and machinery, capitalism and materialism go h...
I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary o...
Am I cured?” “No. You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.” “Is wanting to be different a serious illness?” “It is if you force yourself to be the same a...
God could, had He pleased, have been incarnate in a man of iron nerves, the Stoic sort who lets no sigh escape him. Of His great humility He chose to be incarnate in a man of delicate sensibilities who wept at the grave of Lazarus and sweated blood i...
If one starts with the anatomical difference, which even a patriarchal Viennese novelist was able to see was destiny, then one begins to understand why men and women don't get on very well within marriage, or indeed in any exclusive sort of long-rang...
The human soul is complex. So is Nature (or life, if you prefer). Creating a perfect interface between the two results in a balance that one can recognize in an individual as a state of grace. This kind of resulting harmony is just like the dynamic i...
Rising demand for oil exposed Europe, and later America, to oil shocks - serious interruptions in supply. Like a pebble tossed into a pond, an oil shock creats ripples, or effects, felt everywhere. Oil shocks have two causes. The first is natural, be...
It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.
I would like to do all kinds of things: photography and art and designing; I want to help do charity things for animals and things like that.
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you.
...the fundamental things in a man are not the things he explains, but rather the things he forgets to explain.
In the big scheme of things, it’s the little things that matter
Winners don;t do different things, they do things differently.
Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
One thing about a skunk - once you recognize the markings, you know things are gonna stink.
The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.
I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.