But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life." -Damien

Fear is good. In the right degree it prevents us from making fools of ourselves. But in the wrong measure it prevents us from fully living. Fear is our boon companion but never our master.

I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death....is the true measure of the Divine within us.

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.

It is not just the history of the Hawaiian islands but the significance of the ordinary people whose lives - many quite extraordinary - make up that history.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

There's no point in fighting for the throne if you're not going to make a difference.

Barrons: "He got upset it wouldn't shut up and tore its head off."Mac: "The child?" I gasped

Because you should never run from something that scares you. This time, you won't be alone. I'll be with you.

But love doesn't do what's easy. Love does what's necessary and right.

The moral equation strongly tells everyone who understands freedom, who understands morality, that Israel is engaging in a just war in defense of its people and its freedom.

I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Death can be hastened but never shared.

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems.

The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.