The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.
Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.
Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation. . . Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.
Meaning is not what you start with, but what you end up with.
It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.
Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare.
Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government.
My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin' and hollerin' and jumpin' up and down all around the living room. I started crying because he scared me to death.
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?