"Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way."

"Be humble, for the worst thing in the world is of the same stuff as you; be confident, for the stars are of the same stuff as you."

"In all our efforts to provide 'advantages' we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history."

"One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God."

"I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good."

"I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous."

"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting done by fools."

"Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being."

"All Bibles are man-made."

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

"I wish you well and so I take my leave, I Pray you know me when we meet again."