Home for the exile in a secular and contingent world is always provisional

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.

It Went By Me something very beautiful just went by me something not to tell in words in feelings so fragile so wild something yet to tell is no longer why and when it left i can't tell.

Speaking, writing, and discoursing are not mere acts of communication; they are above all acts of compulsion. Please follow me. Trust me, for deep feeling and understanding require total committment.

Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

I've been on teams that lost a hundred games in a season. I've been on teams that had a shot to make the playoffs and fizzled out at the end.

This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

The church that doesn't want to grow is saying to the world, "go to hell."

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.