Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

A STORY NEVER TOLD BEFORE

When you read without an open mind, you're already filtering ideas and intended message. Selective reading contributes to wilful ignorance.

God will judge us by our own thoughts and deeds, not by what others say about us.

The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.

The purpose of schools should not be to prepare students for more school. We should be seeking to have fully engaged students now

Such a Saint, such an offering.

Bombs take hours or days to reach every corner of the earth. Words arrive instantly and kill more people. They are a weapon of mass destruction.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?