A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.