“I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”
“The sword is the axis of the world and grandeur cannot be divided.”
“There is no place on earth or on the universe that a tree cannot turn a place into a more beautiful site!”
“I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.”
“Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.”
“My mind cannot grasp forever," she told him. "There must surely be an end somewhere. But the big question is-what it beyond the end?”