And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God’s rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land.

But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?

This is, perhaps, the greatest challenge of our time – to love in the absence of any immediate rewards for our love.

There is absolutely nothing inferior about you, because we were all created by the same God in His own image.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

In love's God-like breathing, there's the innermost aspect of the universe.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

I'm in my dressing room about to play to a sold-out crowd at the O2 arena in Ireland. Name a female rapper who's ever done that and I will give you $100,000.

If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.