As if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?

Maybe this is as near as we can come to forgiveness. Not the past wiped away, nothing undone, but some willingness in the present, some recognition and embrace and slowing down.

The worst part of childhood is not knowing that bad things pass, that time passes. A terrible moment in childhood hovers with s kind of eternity, unbearable.

This is what I’ve always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums.

Secular ideologies preach liberty but practice tyranny.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.

I too have experienced the extreme pain of living, but I have also experienced some of its remarkable ecstasy.

He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.

O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!

Im the shyest megalomaniac youre ever likely to meet.

Education, as conceived today, is something separated both from biological and social life.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

Let the Hunger Games Begin!