“The only trap I must beware not to fall into, is to think that each day is the same as the next. In fact, each morning brings with it a hidden miracle, and we must pay attention to this miracle.”

“one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and mystery”

“We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.”

“There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is.”

“She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.”

“Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”

“But each day brings its petty dust
Our soon-chok’d souls to fill,
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.”

“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”

“The purely corporeal can be uncanny. Compare the way angels and devils are portrayed. So-called "miracles" must be connected with this. A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.”

“Continuous reading is the price that each author must pay.”