Parents are the most precious gift given by the god. We should take care of it.

How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors.

In such uncommon longings, hidden in plain sight in our lives, does God call us.

At its edges, a painting makes its surrender to reality. The ways in which it can do so are endlessly revealing, as infinite as the potential forms of painting itself.

You can't have community as an add-on to a monetized life. You have to actually need each other.

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

Nothing is created or destroyed in nature.

One of the things I'm constantly telling my students is that they're never going to write a poem everyone gets, or if they do, they've failed. They should leave someone behind every time.