I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.

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.

Live each day with great love, hope and faith.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasnt very hip.

The human body is a machine that winds up its own springs: it is a living image of the perpetual motion.

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Democrats can't survive in any kind of adversity. Look at how they're crying and whining like a bunch of stuck pigs over the mean Russians.

We are not dealing with a scientific problem. We are dealing with a political issue.

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.

Mentioning Jesus in your speech: Small government. Doing what Jesus asked: Big government.