Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat.

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money.

We cannot take a step toward the heavens. God crosses the universe and comes to us.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

To claim that theft or adultery or lying are "evil" simply reflects our degraded idea of good-—that it has something to do with respect for property, respectability, and sincerity.