As a proof that we are regenerated, we must regenerate everything around us.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Books are the windows of the truth, but they are not the door; they point out things and yet they do not impart them. It is within that we should write, think, and speak, not merely on paper.

All mystics speak the same language, for they come from the same country.

God is a fixed paradise; man should be a paradise in motion.

Writing is about taking everyday observations, things which people see almost every day of their lives, and yet bringing it to their attention for the very first time.

Healing the hurt is much harder than not hurting them at all.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

The old blood is indeed still strong in the Two Rivers.

When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

The bureaucracy is not great. I don't think Rick Santorum who is not one for being a big proponent of large bureaucracies would be as enthusiastic a supporter of it.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Man believes in the possible, but God believes in the impossible.

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.