A man gift will make a way for him.

A man gift will make a way for him.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way read more

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

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?