a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

A wise person can enter and dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through knowledge.

Love is in heart, not in our brains...

I was made to be where I'm at. I just had to go through some challenges, so that I can educate others later.

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom, do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom and die the death for freedom.

Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue.

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Live fast, have fun, be a bit mischievous.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.