I think he loved us equally, but differently.

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.

God is almighty.

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

astonishing splashes of colour

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.

Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

Most people seem to take pleasure in feeling superior to someone. I'm not like that, which pleases me because it makes me feel superior.

A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back.