Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all...

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Wisdom is justified by all her children.Luke 7:35

To achieve a great success, you must first have yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter!

Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.

Love may not expect love in return but lovers do.

I have been a long-term environmental advocate for the agriculture industry. I have particularly tried to push carbon farming or carbon sequestration.

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

I always want to confuse people in terms of any kind of image and be unpredictable in any kind of movie I make.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Second sight is redundant to reason anyway.

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employees a closer part of the unit.