We're in a decaying culture now. Naturally, the young people in the culture are going to feel themselves to be products of the decay.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, "The love that moves the Sun and all the stars" - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.