My grandfather once told her if you couldn't read with cold feet, there wouldn't be a literate soul in the state of Maine.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles.

That day I saw people trying to feed themselves but managing to do so only on a subsistence level. And people who are hungry are not worried about communism or Communists.

Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.