Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

I thought... that we could at least talk about books.

Introverts treasure the close relationships they have stretched so much to make.

God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which he must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.

I haven't even read everything I wrote.

To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.

I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.

We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.