To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort

Silence is the garment of light.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There are places one comes home to that one has never been to.

One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.

The best work is a fusion of love and praise.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.