All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

If you're going to be fighting anyway, why not fight to win and not just to survive.

When we take our eyes off Jesus and only focus on ourselves and our circumstances, we can no longer see Him. God says He will keep us in perfect peace if we keep our eyes on Him.

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step.

a lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is really the beginning of Everything.

I think that you are serving others when you share pieces of yourself with other people.

My bike is my gym, my wheelchair, and my church all in one.

You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more.

There is a class system in acting just like in anything else. Black females fall in a category below black male actors.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.