"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

"Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n."

"To know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence."

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?"

"But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist."

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."

"Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."

"And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods."