“It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.”
“Their length could not be measured in years, just as an ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled, just as the dead can never be counted.”
“Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured.”
“It is easy to be moderate and cool. It is easy to be ignorant and passionate. But to be wise and yet extravagant, to measure all and yet venture all, this is not easy.”
“The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.”
“How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.”