We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder

She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. These were the sons and daughters of Adam from Cathay to Peru.

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.