I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

He who understands the wise is wise already.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

A tree that is planted by the riverside blossoms all through because its environment has taking it beyond the realm of seasons.

The Dance

The poems are part of my attempt to understand being in the world in an honest way.

I don't really like myself, but I'm way into me, physically.

Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close.

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment.

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.

Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows!

We don't praise God to feel good, but to do good.