I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Be kind to all and trust all. If you do so, only a few will break your trust.

Don't settle for a star when you can have the whole sky.

Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves.

Chicago was a town where nobody could forget how the money was made. It was picked up from floors still slippery with blood.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

No, I'm not at all adventurous. I'm terribly cowardly.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

Chris Elliott could read the phonebook and he's funny.

Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want.

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.