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"Words designate, but they also evoke a sense of something, and, when they do, they function as metaphors. ...Metaphors enrich life, making it more vivid."

"We may speak loosely of a ‘sense of time,’ but there is no such sensory organ. Time is something we experience and construct. Time is experienced--is felt--when we wait, expect, or hope."

"America is a much newer experiment in human living, one with moral concerns at its core. In this respect it differs from Europe, which has preferred sophistication and worldly wisdom to "righteousness…"

"Yi-Fu Tuan's official website."

"In contrast to the flux and muddle of life, art is clarity and enduring presence. In the stream of life, few things are perceived clearly because few things stay put. Every mood or emotion is mixed or…"

"Unlike a small village, the city speaks loud and clear of history, of being the terminus of a long, cumulative process."

"At the highest level of achievement, classical music has the feel of an intimate conversation between two individuals and a mass celebration of our common humanity."

"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article about the Professor from June 24th, 2007."

"for humans, no matter what the warmth and duration of human contact and what the size of the group, a periodic sense of isolation is inescapable; it is no less than the human condition."

"People who have ‘music’ in their souls are fun to be with."

"Experience takes time and calls for patience."

"We have no trouble naming the basic physical needs of food, shelter, and sex, nor the basic social needs of care, respect, and love. Can there also be a spiritual need that goes beyond even love as it…"

"Only God creates ex nihilo. Humans can only create out of something that already exists, which means there has to be an earlier destruction phase."

"Children learn early in life that they cannot always count on their parents’ attention much less their smiles, a lesson in human unpredictability that has to be learned over and over again."

"If each person can achieve greatness, so can each fall into baseness."

"Young children distinguish between good people and bad people, but, unless explicitly taught, they do not distinguish between foreigner and native."

"...the Oxford system, which did not require students to take set courses or be tested except at the end of three years, encouraged them to read widely, attend public lectures on all sorts of subjects,…"

"To forgive is to erase a past, depriving it of its power to stain the present."

"Ideally, society is a dance, and every society has its own choreography that is passed down the generations."

"The ease with which a man can lose his sense of self-worth and fall into the pit of self-abasement is a deeply disturbing psychological fact. Asymmetry of power doesn’t have to be extreme for it to ha…"

"Stars define civilization, as no single natural feature on Earth--tree, rock, stream, or mountain--can be said to define cultures."