“There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.”

“We have created a world we dont like, dont understand and dont trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.”

“Forget scientists. The next space launch we should send up painters, poets and musicians. Id be more interested in what they discover than anything that takes place in a test tube.”

“Where there is hope there is life.”

“My problem as a writer is thatwhenever I meet someone for the first timeI immediately invent for them a personality and background that are invariably more interesting than the ones they possess. A...”

“Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.”

“Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a co...”

“Holiness is as much about what you do on a Monday morning on the factory floor as it is about what you do on a Sunday morning in a church gathering. Holiness is as much about the kind of neighbour ...”

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story of Jesus and the Christian makes its rounds century after ce...”

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the...”

“Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!”

“I've always wondered how much can you do for your fellow man if your hands are constantly stuck together in Prayers for them?”

“I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.”

“Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It's the forests where silence has lease;It's the beauty that thrills me with w...”

“All forests are one... They are all echoes of the first forest that gave birth to Mystery when the world began.”