And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life