It was so inspiring for me to watch tennis growing up. I thought I was really good playing, until my brother told me I wasn't!
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.
The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words.
In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us, not dead, but frozen into their attitudes like the courtiers in the garden of the Sleeping Beauty.
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.
. . . the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old.
Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.
It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly religious people. The Jewish or Catholic faiths, for example, have their own rules. But just religious people, who will make very devoted parents, have no problem with in vitro fertilization.
It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
I often go on a liquid fast a couple of days a week. I never take just water. Instead, I'll have maybe six glasses of vegetable and fruit juices a day.