There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before.

The meaning of life consists in the love and service of God.

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.