For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.
I had seen a herd of Elephant travelling through dense native forest. . . pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.
Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution. Be brave, be brave.
I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.
There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.
When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.
Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.