All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits.

His eyes reflected the open grey of the autumnal sky.

Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt hollow and empty and aching.

Gratitude is a gladness of soul.

To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are.

Growing up, I actually wanted to be a professional Baseball player, instead of a radio DJ. Believe it or not.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

Making fun of anyone who seeks happiness rather than money and accusing them of "lacking ambition."

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.