An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown

True love stories never have endings.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

He was not bone and feather but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all

To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Prayer is receiving by faith what God has already done!

You have to reach out to your inner-abuser and make peace. You can't live your life as your own worst enemy!

Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Really? Was that how you quit me?

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

If Jesus were here today, he wouldn't be riding around on a donkey. He'd be taking a plane, he'd be using the media.

I put myself and all the members of Congress in the same boat of things that could have been done better.

We preach to men as if they were conscious they were dying sinners, they are not; they are having a good time.