We are the consciousness of the earth. We are the eyes of the earth. The voice of the earth.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Eternity is not future or past. Eternity is a dimension of now. It is a dimension of the human spirit -- which is eternal. Find that eternal dimension in yourself, and you will ride through time, and throughout the whole length of your days.

The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

Without passion, men are not willing to pay any price or bear any burden to set the captives free.