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To choose time is to save time.

The way we imagine ourselves to appear to another person is an essential element in our conception of ourselves. In other words, I am not what I think I am, and I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in the. .

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one good memory is left in our hearts, it may also be the instrument of our salvation one day.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

To be human means to feel inferior.

A man gift will make a way for him.

You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!.