To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city.

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

...when we say we're looking for a spiritual adviser, we're really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain.

Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.

All grief, anyone's grief...is the weight of a sleeping child.

It's not a person's depth you must discover, but their ascent. Find their path from depth to ascent.

Truth grows gradually in us, like a musician who plays a piece again and again until suddenly he hears it for the first time

... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

We have to make the right decisions.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

I do date quite frequently.

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Dreams do not work unless you do.

Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.