It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you.

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.

One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion.

While sight may deceive you, touch rarely does.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics

Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

All created things are living in the Hand of God. The senses see only the action of the creatures; but faith sees in everything the action of God.

I don't want people to be suicidal. I want them to be energized and angry.

My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.