What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

Was this how the characters in Harry Potter felt when the spoke the name of You-Know-Who?

I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.

I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.

I can support going in after Saddam Hussein, but I want to make sure I don't go alone.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

Everyone knows the more you chase something the faster it runs and the more you ignore something the faster it comes.

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin.

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.