With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.

Poverty is a condition that resides in the heart . . . not in the wallet.

You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.

Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

When in doubt, shut up.

I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out.

It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]

Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.

Don't sacrifice a good life for a good time.

I am writing a book. So far I have the pages numbered.

God will not pity them, but “laugh at their calamity.” The blessed company in heaven shall rejoice in the execution of God's righteous judgment, and sing while the smoke riseth up for ever.