I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

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.

Subject and object are not separate—so-called objective reality is projected by our subjective Consciousness.

Greatness can only be attained through time conversion.

In the next instance Graham claimed her lips in a demanding, yet gentle kiss

Whoever said "It's not whether you win or lose that counts " probably lost.

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

The internet has huge advantages but its downside is the easy access to resources.

I did see [in Afghanistan] plenty that reminded me of my childhood. I recognised my old neighbourhood, saw my old school, streets where I had played with my brother and cousins.

It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !

The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Saving lives, one day at a time, just like always