The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening.

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

The dedicated life is worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

Growing older does not automatically mean growing kinder or wiser.

He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me.

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

The church does not draw people in; it sends them out.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

There are no instant solutions.

Tea! The English could always be pacified with it!

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

It has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere.

It's always good to hear that people you like are happy.