The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

Those who believe they believe in God, but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.