How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Beauty always takes place in the particular.

Beauty brings copies of itself into being.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Walk in the light pathways.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

Never let an earthly circumstance disable you spiritually.

The claim that everybody sees the world differently is not a claim that there's no reality. It's a different kind of claim.

When you love someone, you care about them. If they have a disaster, you don't abandon them.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

My upbringing was very un-Hollywood. I was born in New York and grew up on a ranch.

Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm.

The child of God ought to confess his weakness that he does not know how to pray, and petition the Holy Spirit to teach him.