“The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.”

“I have discovered that all the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.”

“Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.”

“All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy. All the happiness there is in this world arises from wishing others to be happy.”

“The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius.”

“Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them”