Through our soul is our contact with heaven.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

If you listen to music every day, you will strengthen your soul.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

The mills of the gods grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine.

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

I have never written anything in one draft, not even a grocery list, although I have heard from friends that this is actually possible.

Invoking removes darkness and brings forth radiant lights.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

I'm a Capricorn, and they flower late.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.