the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

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.

I love the morning sun because it enlightens my heart and teaches me how to love others with an abundance of warmth and kindness.

If everyone was cognisant of their purpose on earth, we would only need weapons for hunting and nothing else.

There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

I'm a country bumpkin. I'm not a showgirl.

You can never really get away - - you can only take yourself somewhere else.

How you feel? How you feel? How you feel? 25 sittin on 25 mill.

Winning is the best deodorant.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!