From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.

Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.

As is the case with many adolescents, Lewis's increased command over over the things of the world brought with it a corresponding atrophy of the moral sense.

Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches in the soul...

Somewhere within you is a huge supply of happiness, always there, patiently waiting for you to reach out and grab it. It’s yours for the asking. And you ask by giving it your attention.

Choose to experience peace rather than conflict.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat.

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.

I will fight for oil, coal and natural gas.

As far as Im concerned, I regret nothing.

If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.