“Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.

A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.

Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.

Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.

The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.

Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.

All action is vicarious faith.

The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.

This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.

By the word of God the world was created.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

When I look at nature I feel as if I’ll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you’re working.

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Of all the stars in the universe I only ever loved you, the one who also loved me.

While adding the finishing touches to a painting might appear insignificant, it is much harder to do than one might suppose.

Sir one more comment like that and I will strangle you with my microphone wire!