You couldn't change a river into a sea, but you could trace a new channel for it to follow.

Nothing is going to happen to me, or you, for that matter. Anything can happen, though. Anything can happen. But most always, just normal things happen, and people have happy lives.

In that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light.

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

...do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone?

Come morning, his memory would be of a night spent watching over them all. And each of them - dog and boy, mother and old man - would feel the same.

And from the look on his face I could see he was one of the lucky ones, one of those people who like doing what they're good at. That's rare. When you see that in a person, you can't miss it.

...in that dilated moment after sunset when the sky holds all the light...

Anything can happen. But almost always, just normal things happen and people have happy lives.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

Composing music changes nations, listening to music changes you.

Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

Women are just beginning to see that there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

The sense is always that community is natural to people.

Lincoln, the Man of the People

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

I can't believe that person on the television is really me.

Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.