When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Joblessness gives you life ownership

If you have goals and procrastination, you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Sacrifice was nine tenths of parenting.

One of your most powerful inner resources is your own creativity. Be willing to try on something new and play the game full-out.

What I do when speaking in public is trying to do it as best as possible and trying to make everybody comfortable with my words. Sometimes getting this is very difficult, but I try my best.

The national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.

Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.