Memory is the thing you forget with.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a read more

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?

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

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

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

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old read more

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything read more

The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.