I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others

God...sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better

A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your head. But in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are dead

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Who if I cried out, would hear me among the angel's hierarchies? and even if one of them pressed me suddenly against his heart I would be consumed in that overwhelming existence For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are still just able to endure. and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further