Weber sandstone a billion years old. This rock was Precambrian, I read, a term like postmodern, suggesting that what it names is so mysterious as to require identification by what it isn’t.

We live in the world we made up.

What you experience is the accumulation of what you have thought about and wished for.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

I think that any important educational goal can be realized via several routes.

Most people are not valued. Very few people have someone who believes in them. Very few have others love them unconditionally. Do these things intentionally every day.

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

By helping the poor, we must be able to remove their poverty. But extending help to one here and one there in the form of providing food will not remove poverty.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Everything will probably never be Ok. But we have to try for it.