Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow." Their name is today.

You shall create beauty not to excite the senses but to give sustenance to the soul.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The poet is an untier of knots, and love without words is a knot, and it drowns.

There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.

Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.

I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

Very few people realize how dangerous the indoor environment can be to long term health.

Why does a person spend money on a stamp to spout bile at a stranger?

Do not fear, for I am with you - Isaiah 41:10

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

It's not good to throw back scotch with a new fetus.

If you say what you think don't expect to hear only what you like.

There's so much to explore! And personally, I don't know. It's such a crapshoot.

Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.