The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, and moral being.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Anything really new is repulsive, because it is abnormal and unreasonable.

Act as if you were already the person you want most to be.

Together with the works of mercy, feeding, sheltering, and clothing our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

Let's not forget, I got divorced.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.