I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

Gardening is not a rational act.

I used to be a print reporter.

No one of us can survive in the world of today, much less what it will become, without personal inspiration.

I'm very interested in how idealistic young people can get caught up in all sorts of systems of extreme belief, you know, whether it's cults or whether it's suicide bombers.

I sat down next to her. Took her hand. This can work, I said. All we have to do is try.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.