Water is the soul of the Earth.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Get up very early and get going at once. In fact, work first and wash afterwards.

Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.