Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning.

God acts in history: that is, God provides ideas, methods, and experiences intended to bring comprehension to man, an understanding heart, a conscious life.

Faith cannot be shaken, it is the result of being shaken.

We lose our time because we lose our attention

The only really interesting questions are the unanswerable ones.

We are human beings, beings whose fundamental food is the experience of truth.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

When thought races ahead of Being, a civilization is racing towards destruction.

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

To love my neighbor is to assist the arising and unfolding in him of that which can harmonize the real elements of his nature.

The Womb of a Virtuous Woman produces a Wonder boy that grows to be a Real Man

Good can exist without evil, but evil cannot exist without good.The former is eternal, the latter is temporal.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

For the larger interest of humanity, Islamic society presents the safest place on this planet.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

I think wanting to write is a fundamental sign of disease and discomfort. I don't think people who are comfortable want to write.

George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.

Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?