We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Discover yourself, discover what God has called you for, and find your place in life, so that you can fulfill God’s purpose for your life

Love is Lots Of Valuable Energy.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

Love is a pathway of many colors and dead ends. But when the right path is chosen, the sights are amazing.

Prayer is awe, intimacy, struggle-yet, the way to reality.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.