The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.