We meet ourselves at every turn In the long country of the past.

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

The curse of Scottish literature is the lack of a whole language, which finally means the lack of a whole mind.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

Packed in my skin from head to toe is one I know and do not know.

I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone.

Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness.

See him, the gentle Bible beast, / With lacquered hoofs and curling mane, / His wondering journey from the East / Half done, between the rock and plain.

It is better to trust and lose occasionally than always be suspicious and lose every time.

There's nothing more beautiful than authenticity. There's nothing stronger than vulnerability. There's no better time than now.

We are currently too attached to our worldly toys, rather than to the lessons our playing could impart to further the maturity of our collective soul.

Designing a dream city is easy; rebuilding a living one takes imagination.

Each person is the universe from a particular perspective.

We're machines for turning caffeine into physics

Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.