I was a comedian in Russia, and I worked on the cruise ships there. I met a lot of Americans, and they were laughing even though I didn't speak their language.
Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.
Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.
When all my endeavor is turned toward Thee because all Thy endeavor is turned toward me; when I look unto Thee alone with all my attention, nor ever turn aside the eyes of my mind, because thou dost enfold me with Thy constant regard; when I direct my love toward Thee alone because Thou, who art Love’s self hast turned Thee toward me alone. And what, Lord, is my life, save that embrace wherein Thy delightsome sweetness doth so lovingly enfold me?
In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.
Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.
In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.
Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.
You can observe a lot by just watching.