And often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Motivation can be found no matter your situation, the key is to look for it. Stacey Fowler

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Stop putting it off! Procrastination breeds guilt, guilt breeds depression, and depression breeds failure.

A career of nearly 40 years, is not very long.

Did you forget? I'm a heartless wretch!

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Since the Gulf War, since the new World Order, America is now the number one arms dealer in the world.

I have never been a shooter.