Understand before you pass judgement. But how do you pass judgement once you have understood?

Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

Say, ‘Thank you, Phin.’ ”“Oh, please.”“Say, Thank youvery much, Phin. ”“I don’t think so.”“Say, ‘You are a great lover, Phin.’ ”“I’m out of here.

We go from curiosity to a search for communion.

He took the last seat, as usual, a subtle reminder of what he was and what he had become.

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice.

People abandoned one another constantly without performing the courtesy of of actually disappearing. They left, but didn't, lurking about, a constant reminder of what could or should have been.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it.

I do not ask for my music to be interpreted, but only for it to be played.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies.