"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

"Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations."

"So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself."

"The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible."

"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time."

"It is a radiant truth that the river of time washes away kings and empires, leaving only virtue intact."