When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. 

In a consecrated calm, forgotten yet. Of the keen heart that hastens to forget old longings in fulfilling new desires.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plight may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, i almost certainly will.

Do not cry, new wishes, new dreams will take place. The unspent years of joy will happen and there will be no sorrow left.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

To my mind the old masters are not at; their value is in their scarcity.

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principles, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.