A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathle….

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves..

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds,….

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future..

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually don't believe in him..

A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to ….

Sometimes when we have to speak suddenly we come closer to the truth than when we have time to think..

They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," th….

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect..

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have..

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness..

If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time..

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy..

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way..

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day..

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it..

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general..

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy... If I try self….

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes..

We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink..

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in….