A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.

For a full two hours, he stood at that door, a cloud of uncertainty ruling his mind. Damian felt like his heart was about to burst. Could she love him? Was it really true?

When you listen to your spouse, you are communicating non verbally that they are important to you.

I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!

Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.

Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.