We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

It was not an end, it was a beginging

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.