Between certainty and the real, an ancient enmity.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.

Your beliefs are decisions

You weren't born a quitter, and it's your sole responsibility to never turn yourself into one.

God’s riches are sufficient to bless all humanity.

And if you're not buying my dinnner or you think you fancy, you're not getting a date with The Miz!

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

The wheel is come full circle.