Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Goodcommunication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleepafter.

Neverforget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes onand on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.