God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

God’s discipline has nothing to do with rejection but more to do with refinement.

Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.

Unknown is interesting like the Dead zone... you never know where you will go.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

People have to know that they can count on you, that you won't say one thing one day and something totally different the next.

What is strong and rigid is snapped and laid low. What is flexible and soft will always prevail.

Meditation helps everything.

A pox on both his testicles! (Esperetta)

It doesn't matter how you live and die, it's how the bards wrote it down.