The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

Worries and sufferings are helpful for (one’s) spiritual development.

I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

Unless we as social change agents come from a certain spirituality, we're likely to create more harm than good.

You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as idea.

...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.

There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.