On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Happiness is never grand.

If the men of the Middle Ages... lived in filth and discomfort, it was not for any lack of ability to change their mode of life; it was because they chose to live this way, because filth and discomfort fitted in with their principles and prejudices, political, moral, and religious.... It was in the power of medieval... craftsmen to create armchairs and sofas that might have rivaled in comfort those of today

To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.