Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

I had the feeling . . . that my experience was very different from other people’s. (Are we all under this illusion?)

The nicest gifts are those left, nameless and quiet, unburdened with love, or vanity, or the desire for attention.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.