And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.

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.

Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

Our world is constantly changing but the needs of our hearts remain the same, and so does God's power to transform our lives and give us hope for the future.

Form follows finances instead of function.

I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one

Your "if" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in "if.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.