“Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.”

A man will lay down his life for his friend but will not sacrifice his eardrums.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.

A university is not, primarily, a place in which to learn how to make a living; it is a place in which to learn how to be more fully a human being, how to draw upon one’s resources, how to discipline the mind and expand the imagination; how to make some sense out of the big world we will shortly be thrown into.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that ‘Search is the Process’ and ‘Discovery the Art Form.

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

It is essential for me to become involved in another search, and ‘search’ is the proper word to use because it promises discovery along with the risk.

This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both

No harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.

Even through the limitless space of the heavens – surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. .

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.