Gardening symbolizes our race's primordial acceptance of a responsibility and role in rectifying the harm done to the creation through sin.

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

Giving from the heart lights a flame of kindness, forever illuminating your world.

When we create an environment where our spirit is in sync with the Divine Spirit, then we should be on the lookout for good, positive, helpful thoughts and ideas from a source beyond ourselves. p23.

If you can learn from hard knocks you can also learn from soft touches.

In the business world an executive knows something about everything, a technician knows everything about something and the switchboard operator knows everything.

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

Andreotti had style and class; Berlusconi does not

I prefer to think of faith, as Coleridge says of poetry, not as the taking up of belief but as "the willing suspension of disbelief". . . a willingness to be open, to explore, to investigate.

Time tries the troth in everything.

I think when you look at religion, you look at where Christianity came from. You know, my mom delved deeper into that. And she felt a deep connection.