God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

1337% of Pi ≈ 42

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.

I feel like my body doesn't judge the hours, you know? It doesn't care if it's daytime or nighttime.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

The way you slam your body into mine reminds me I’m alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

... the current of time slowing down in the gravitational field of oblivion.