All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

To find yourself, get lost for others.

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.

There are stars, stars, scattered stars, blackness all between. They ripple and fold and bend, and they rush toward him, rush by him. Their colors are blazing and pure as angels' eyes.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.