Never dare to lower your self-confidence in order to please those who can't stand you because you strongly believe in your abilities.

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

Everything changes, it all stays the same, Everyone guilty, no one to blame, Every way out, brings you back to the start, Everyone dies to break somebody's heart...

Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.

Everyone else is just cocktails.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.