What a blessing it is to love books.

Reading makes immigrants of us all — it takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

HAZEL ROCHMAN

...you can choose choices but not outcomes.

Jeg forsøker å fremkalle bilder fra det jeg vil kalle dypt erfaringsmateriale som er felles for oss alle. Jeg mener musikken kan nå ned til det plan hvor en møter mennesket helt alene. Graver en seg forbi alle lag av nytte, materialisme etc., begynner det å bli et felleskap i ensomheten.

We bear our life`s path within ourselves, and the eternal stars of our fate burn within us

Jeg sitter et sted der jeg ser at medfølelsen med menneskene er helt avgjørende for kunsten.

Det spiller ingen rolle hva andre tror, det eneste som betyr noe er hva jeg selv tror.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
—John Burroughs

I never can feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its beauty.
—John Keats

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
—Novalis

Med vor blotte holdning til hinanden er vi med til at give hinandens verdens dens skikkelse. Hvilken vidde og farve den andens verden får for ham selv er jeg med til at bestemme med min holdning til ham. Jeg er med til at gøre den vid eller snæver, lys eller mørk, mangfoldig eller kedelig – og ikke mindst er jeg med til at gøre den truende eller tryg. Ikke ved teorier eller anskuelser, men ved min blotte holdning. Hvorfor der er en uudtalt, så at sige anonym fordring til os om at tage vare på det liv, som tilliden lægger i vor hånd.

(Fra dansk. Forlaget Klim, 2010).

It is not a quality, but rather a consequence of its qualities, that Bach's melody never grows old. It remains ever fair and young, like Nature, from which it is derived.

'For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. The victory that overcomes the world is your faith' (1 John 5:4).

Christ teaches us, first of all, to believe in the light while the light is in us.

If life in God is the only true life, blissful in itself, it will be true and blissful here on earth, in all the various circumstances of life.

We forget that Christ could never have thought it possible that men who believe in His doctrine of humility, love, and universal brotherhood would calmy and consciously institute the murder of their
brethren.

she realised that you could be honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, its not what you look at that matters, its what you see.

Every life contains many millions of descisions. Some big, some small. But every time one descision is taken over another, the outcomes differ. An irriversible occurs, which in turn leads to further variations

Good, meeting with evil and remaining untainted by it, can alone conquer evil.