Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.

Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.