Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.