It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

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.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

If we continue, we die, " Baylon said. Jordyn touched his face. "If I don't have you inside me, I die.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.

They tell me, Lord, that when I seem To be in speech with you. Since but one voice is heard, it

I love acting, and so whenever I get the opportunity to act, I'm happy. I'm easy to please when it comes to that kind of stuff. I don't know what I'd do without it.

Fortunes cannot grow; someone has to increase them.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I wish to die painting.

Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.