Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

To admit ignorance is the highest knowledge. It is the necessary condition for all learning.

Maybe you've had skin next to your skin, but when was the last time you let yourself be touched?

I'm an old Catholic. I don't believe in anything Catholic but I do believe that Catholicism keeps me from committing suicide.

Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love?

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Miracles are out there somewhere. You just got to find them.

Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.

The language of nature is silence.

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Football is very masculine and, to me, a metaphor for war.

I generally have an idea where I want to go, but I don't know how I'm going to get there.

Is the world so unbearable? No! What we need is only a little more love for the world.