It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

Scars are just another kind of memory.

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame.

From when she was a baby, Tom has taught the girl to respect, but not fear, the forces of nature- the lightning that might strike the light tower on Janus, the oceans that batter the island.

Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.

To make sense of it - that's the challenge. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.

You have only to forgive once. To resent, you have to doit all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things" Frank to Hannah Roennfeldt

The only thing we can do is love that little girl as much as she deserves. And never, never hurt her!

What are you suggesting I do Ralph?’‘I’m suggesting you tell the bloody truth whatever it is. The only place lying leads is trouble.’“Sometimes that’s the only place telling the truth get you, too.

Stick to now. Put right the things you can put right today, and let the ones from back then go. Leave the rest to the angels, or the devil or whoever's in charge of it.

As we become the light, the light is lifted in every room that we enter.

Change is constant, but no amount of change will turn the attitude of vulture to that of eagle.

Isn't that funny, that deity is passe but the attributes and implications of deity linger--

Every attempt to fix eternity is an escape from reality. I will be plaguing my days with moments and minutes. For ever is too far!

We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.

Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any

Any good album title has multiple meanings, and I like choosing titles where I find myself repeating it, almost like a mantra.

I believe that no hell will be lacking which would help the just mercy of God to redeem his children.

Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.