“The Wonder of the Woods,Lies less in Sight then Sensing, Less in Sound than Silence.”

“What makes a man move,From comforts left behind,Then put motion toAdventures of the mind.”

“For young adults,the growth from silly to serious can be very fast, indeed.”

“The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.”

“Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.”

“Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death. They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse. There is silence.”

“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”