I cannot find my way: there is no star In all the shrouded heavens anywhere

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

Life is the game that must be played.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.

No matter what we are, and what we sing, Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel

I shall have more to say when I am dead.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

Love must have wings to fly away from love, And to fly back again.

Shake the tree of life itself and bring down fruits unheard of.

The Holy Spirit teaches the Truth.

Alas, between the “shouldn’t” and the “shouldn’t have”—that is precisely where life happens.

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

I am now about to make the great adventure. I cannot endure this agonizing pain any longer. It is all over my body. Neither can I face the impending blindness. I pray the Lord my soul to take. Amen.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

I can like something. You can like something. It's not an absolute.