“Be commonplace and creeping, and you attain all things.”

“A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.”

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

“My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.”

“To attain knowledge, add things every day.
To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”

“Peace and joy are not things you attain at the end of life. They are the basis of your life.”

“The highest attainment, as well as enjoyment of the spiritual life, is to be able at all times and in all things to say, 'Thy will be done.”

“That which admits man to God's Threshold is his separation from all that is not of God—a thing which is not attainable by all.”

“What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal,
Whose flame creeps in at every hole!”

“He often lying broad awake, and yet
Remaining from the body, and apart
In intellect and power and will, hath heard
Time flowing in the middle of the night,
And all things creeping to a day of doom.”