The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Always grow with changes and not against them.

I Only Speak in Blood. . .

Giving presents is a talent to know what a person wants to know when and how to get it to give it lovingly and well.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

What we spend our time on is probably the most important decision we make.

Principle-centered people are constantly educated by their experiences.