We should count time by heart-throbs.

The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest.

The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.

Every man's highest, nameless though it be, is his 'living God'.

We are each of us responsible for the evil we may have prevented.

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

Trust arises from the mind's instinctive feeling after fixed realities, after the substance of every shadow, the base of all appearance, the everlasting amid change.

All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and good, are, in like manner, never lost.

Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

There is no room in the universe for the least contempt or pride; but only for a gentle and a reverent heart.

Some of them are wearing skirts that I'm pretty sure are supposed to be belts.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.

People often assume New York City is no place to keep a dog. This is certainly what my parents told me when I was growing up there. But I have found this not to be the case at all.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

What are you up to now?" "I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it.