The formative principles of the universe distinguish everything, yet separate nothing. They sustain nothing in perpetuity, yet perpetually generate everything.

Tyranny shouts, “You must!” Leadership whispers, “Perhaps we should.”

Old minds should be like ripe, falling fruit, rich with seeds of wisdom for the evolution of the species.

It is a great mistake to confuse physical strength, dominance, violence, vulgarity, or brutality with masculinity. Masculinity is emotional stability, undaunted integrity, quiet courage, humility, generosity, and capacity for enduring love, or it is nothing.

As a young child born in a tiny cottage in a small farming village in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, I discovered three principal loves of my life: nature, reading, and unstructured learning.

Envy is admission of inferiority.

The wise make known their gratitude for the smallest favor they receive and expect none for the greatest benefit they bestow.

The one who professes the best motives is the most likely to act from the worst.

Society blundered into the twenty-first century bursting with how, enamored of what, and barren of why.