And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

he wished for freedom and heaven was granted to him".

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I had to fall out.

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

For if life had taught her anything, it was that healing and peace can begin only with acknowledgment of wrongs committed.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.

An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.