I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check.

I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.

I'm not a big Austen reader. I wouldn't say I dislike her, but if I had to choose between her and Eliot to bring to a desert island, it would definitely be Eliot.

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

According to the mystics, this search for divine bliss is the entire purpose of a human life. this is why we all chose to be born, and this is why all the suffering and pain of life on earth is worthwhile--just for the chance to experience this infinite love. And once you have found this divinity within, can you hold it? Because if you can...bliss.