Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.

Who in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?

America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.

For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda.

Allah gave the Qur'an to a very special man, who passed it on to us, for the rest of all our days.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Silence is a beautiful fresh water tank to raise the trout of thought.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.