“What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”

“What we live in, unfortunately, is a time when we are infected by what I call quantum field theory idolatry.”

“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.”

“When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us.”

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

“When we, as individuals, take from our neighbors what they won’t voluntarily give—at gunpoint, if necessary—we call it theft. When majorities take from minorities what they won’t voluntarily give—at gunpoint, if necessary—we call it taxation.”

“When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.”

“What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.”

“We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.”

“We lose a great deal, I think, when we lose this sense and feeling for the sun. When all has been said, the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on natures's sustaining and poetic spirit.”