“Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, “This… this…”; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech but sullen to say it; baffled silence; the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.”

“Few great men could pass personnel.”

“Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”

“Few great men could pass Personnel.”

“Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”

“I have learned to have very modest goals for society and myself things like clean air green grass children with bright eyes not being pushed around useful work that suits one's abilities plain tasty food and occasional satisfying nookie.”

“The family is the American fascism.”

“Enjoyment is not a goal it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.”

“It is by losing himself in the objective in inquiry creation and craft that a man becomes something.”

“Few great men could pass Personnel.”

“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.”