How can we fully appreciate the redemption Jesus performed unless we fully understand from what we were redeemed?

The reason for the prevalence of the principle of union in all the great teachings is that it originates from the Holy marriage between the divine of God’s soul and His divine human.

Consider the simple hedgehog, and his neighbor, the opossum...do they waste their energy trying to throw one another into chasms when they face a common enemy, the winter? No!

We preach revolution but whine about the oppression in the name of change

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.

You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.

Whatever hath been written shall remain, Nor be erased nor written o'er again; The unwritten only still belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder well what that shall be.

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

You've got to be smart enough to write and stupid enough to not think about all the things that might go wrong.

Man has boyhood, adolescence, youth, middle age and senescence, as stages of growth; there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.