“...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.”

“The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.”

“Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?”

“The spirit of life relates to what has been described by the word “heaven”; the phenomenal world around us to what is described by the word “earth.” Heaven and earth are one. Only man, in his foolishness, endeavors to separate them. To the extent that he is successful in this it becomes hell in his own experience. Hell is simply the absence of the experience of heaven; it is the absence of the experience of life, in whatever degree. The experience of life as it really is, is heaven.”

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

“Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.”