It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.

I would advise you against defensiveness on priciple. it precludes the best eventualities along with the worst. At the most basic level it expresses a lack of faith.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

Grace has a grand laughter in it.

Rejoice with those who rejoice." I have found that difficult too often. I was much better at weeping with those who weep.

There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.

Science can give us knowledge, but it cannot give us wisdom. Nor can religion, until it puts aside nonsense and distraction and becomes itself again.