This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

I wondered how many other things had flown past me into death. Perhaps many. Perhaps I was flying past them, like the grim reaper, signaling the end. This would explain so much.

So this was what it was like not to be me.

If I could quietly kill her without anyone knowing, I would.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Speak with your heart when you speak love.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.

I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

Now, looking back on my life in Africa, I feel that it might altogether be described as the existence of a person who had come from a rushed and noisy world, into a still country.

I’m already yours. Always have been. All you have to do is step into the ring.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

The [Barack] Obama administration has both their hands in your pocket. They're trying to take every hard dollar you make to give it out in handouts to buy votes.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.