A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

Softly the evening came /with the sunset/.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining.

Into each life some rain must fall.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

But you said so yourself, the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

I’ve never been one to go to church, but I’ve al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.

Whatever crisis you are going through, fruit will come from it. Allow the crisis to bring fruit.

Our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

I love rock and roll. Sometimes I feel like I was born in the wrong decade because I love Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix and... those are my bands.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.