No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.