[https://web.archive.org/web/20051123233012/http://texaschapbookpress.com/magellanslog5/Saltlick/hsinhsinming.htm The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Robert B. Clarke]

You left a hole wide enough for guys like him to randomly get shot into the wrong dimension. Now I'm stuck putting everybody back where they belong before all of time and space collapses! And don't even get me started on Doctor Strange and the little nerd on Earth-199999!

This universe is a drop from the ocean of his beauty, unable from its fulness to find place in the parent bosom.

Whenever I came across something that influenced me, I wanted to be that. So it varied from an astronaut, airhostess, army girl, to truck driver. Once, I wanted to be a nun - my mother wanted me to change schools after that...

Even if you have three or four extra syllables—or as many as five or seven—you need not worry as long as the verse sounds right.

We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.

[http://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Master Sheng-Yen]

Her comments before and after Los Angeles were filled with a kind of hatred that you do not honor today and tonight.… If you took the words "white" and "black," and you reversed them, you might think David Duke was giving that speech.

By keeping historical events in their proper perspective, theology helps safeguard society and the Church from regarding as permanent what is only temporary. Critical reflection thus always plays the inverse role of an ideology which rationalizes and justifies a given social and ecclesial order.

How surprising it is that the laws of nature and the initial conditions of the universe should allow for the existence of beings who could observe it. Life as we know it would be impossible if any one of several physical quantities had slightly different values.

[http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/mzb/mzb04.htm The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki]

Even if you have three or four extra syllables—or as many as five or seven—you need not worry as long as the verse sounds right. If even one sound unit stagnates in your mouth, give it a careful scrutiny.

Where find a soul that does not thrill
   In Kalidasa’s verse to meet
The smooth, inevitable lines
   Like blossom-clusters, honey-sweet?

What did today's sacrifices matter: the Universe lay ahead in the future. What did burnings at the stake and massacres matter? The Universe was somewhere else, always somewhere else! And it isn't anywhere: there are only men, men eternally divided.

The principles of great men illuminate the universe.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.