The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

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

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

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.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Time passes by, memory staysTorturing silently, rest of our days... Sigh!

Social hierarchy doesn’t hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.

he knew in his body, even if he hadn’t yet put it together in his mind, that in America the worst thing you could be was a black man. Worse than dead, you were a dead man walking.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I forgot more than you'll ever know.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

Allah set Hajj for the consolidation and reinforcement of the religion.

What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.