I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
I've done arenas, and sometimes it feels like you're the only one in the room.
One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.
Many of my fellow atheists consider all talk of 'spirituality' or 'mysticism' to be synonymous with mental illness, conscious fraud, or self-deception. I have argued elsewhere that this is a problem - because millions of people have had experiences for which 'spiritual' and 'mystical' seem the only terms available.
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.
I feel alive inside only when obstacles are arising that must be overcome and eliminated.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.
I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me. The only person I could prepare for events was me. And if I didn't play well, I didn't play well, and I wasn't going to compete.
