Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.