“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”

“Whoever enters the Way without a guide
will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.
The Prophet said "In this way you have no more
faithful companion than your works."
How can these works and this earning in the way of righteousness
be accomplished without a master, O father? Can you practice the meanest profession in the world
without a master's guidance?
Whoever undertakes a profession without a master
becomes the laughingstock of city and town.”

“Life is a journey, Frannie darling," Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."
As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel.”

“He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant. We must approach knowledge from the inside; inspired by passion.”

“One can no more approach people without love than one can approach bees without care. Such is the quality of bees…”

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.”

“Time that gives so much and Time that takes so much away has put its mark on this place that is Old Hemlock almost without altering anything. In that gray-black blend of night-to-dawn I lie and think of all that Kay and I possess, aware that what is good is not what is new but what is loved and used, with a patina from hands and years.”

“An agreeable companion on a journey is as good as a carriage.”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”