The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

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

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.

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.

The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

One, two, three, Im gon be crazy and free.

The kids (in the Jesus Movement) weren't singing for themselves. It seemed like they were singing TO Someone.

As one retiring chief executive said to his successor "Yesterday was the last day you heard the truth from your subordinates."

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

I think you can never ever lie, ever. If you don't know, say, 'I don't know'.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.

I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.