It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament.

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.