He felt it deep, like a stone too big to heft out of the garden. He just had to how around it and make do.

He missed him like he would miss the sun if it fell out of the sky.

Let me not fear adversity.

I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Sexual pleasure, wisely used and not abused, may prove the stimulus and liberator of our finest and most exalted activities.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed the documents to the next government, and I never heard about it again.

Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

It's important to do things that scare you to death!

You can always make a lot of people love one another so long as there are a smaller number outside the group for them to kick.