The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was evil.

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

I want to - on behalf of myself, and I think on behalf of a majority of the American people, say that, you know, our word is good.

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?