Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

You can't reign in obscurity you can't shine in your comfort zone.

When you find a way to serve, the angel in you awakens.

In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt

The principles of the Kingdom of God make it possible to live life at its highest level.

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another.

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.