Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

Never forget that when we are silent, we are one. And when we speak we are two.

I'm not the kind of guy who likes to rush things through. I like to take my time and finish when I'm finished.

There is no pedestrian culture [in South Central Los Angeles].

With 'Blue Slide Park' I wanted to have a number one album, and I did do it, so I'm not mad at it, but that was its goal.

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Father Jude Nnorom says he hopes the pope's travels in Africa will help end all the wars ravaging the continent.