Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.

Don’t try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.

If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you.

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

Egotism is such a terrible disease, he dies, to be reincarnated he continues coming and going.

Once you're dead, you're made for life.

God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things lightly - to put first things first.

My world, my world... How can such a good little girl like you destroy all of my beautiful wickedness. - Wicket Witch of the North

Do not even think of doing what ought not to be done.

Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.