“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life.

A body of clay, a mind brimming with joy, a life of one fleeting moment — that is my introduction.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.