If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.

Slavery all day, and then, suddenly, by nightfall- freedom!

The child tells me her grandmothershowed her how to cure sadness by sucking the juice of an orange, while standing on a beach.Toss the peels onto a wave.Watch the sadness float away.

Hatred must be a hard thing to learn.

Can it be true that freedom only exists when it is a treasure, shared by all?

I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are seperated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass graves, bones touching.

I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be, he said, but I know a couple of wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.

Don't let your emotions get the best of you and blind you from the truth.

Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life.

I don't do flash fiction.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.

Children develop character by what they see, by what they hear, and by what they are repeatedly led to do.

Prisoners learn how to make do with less, and many of them want to take this ingenuity that they've learned to the outside ... but there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that.

I AM VERY MOVED BY SURVIVORS. BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO OVERCOME A HANDICAP, A SITUATION, OR ANYTHING. VISITING THE HEARTS AND SOULS OF THOSE PEOPLE TEACHES ME A LOT ABOUT HUMANS AND HUMANITY.