We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we read more

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, read more

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space
and indefinite in duration.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really loves it.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out
completes the circle and comes back to read more

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out
completes the circle and comes back to us.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Illegitimis non carborundum."Lat., "Don't let the bastards grind you down.

School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best read more

In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is
so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which
all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in
which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is
designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and
uncertainty, order and chaos. Every important call is a close one. We
survive and evolve by the skin of our teeth. We really wouldn't want it
any other way.