God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
I never discuss discussions.
Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
