Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

I’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

If somebody thinks they’re a hedgehog, presumably you just give ‚em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

My mum passing away wasn’t funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

I think 9/11 affected everybody in one way or another.

‚Thursday‘ is a conceptual album. Whatever that situation was, I spent the whole album focusing on that situation.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?