If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

Your house is your larger body. It grows in the sun and sleeps in the stillness of the night; and it is not dreamless. Does not your house dream, and dreaming, leave the city for grove or hilltop?

These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.