It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

When faced with something I fear, I tend to eat spaghetti.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

...to be paid for one's joy is to steal.

The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love.

Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and forever; when you live in the present with the lucidity and feeling of memory; when, for want of connection, the world deepens and becomes art.