In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a plot for weeds.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

Perhaps a great love is never returned. Had it been given warmth and shelter by its counterpart in the Other, perhaps it would have been hindered from ever growing to maturity. It "gives" us nothing. But in its world of loneliness it leads us up to the summits with wide vistas - of great insights.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.