If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical you've got it half licked.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.

It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.