But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want.

Good brands reflect the histories of the time and the group of people that made them. They can not be copied. They can not be recycled.

The day terrorists realize there acts unite us, they might switch places with Politicians.

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be or not to be which deals with death.

Without the perpetual counterfeiting of the universe by number, man could not continue to live

For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

Leaders never have to ask the people to, 'Come follow me.' The people believe just by watching his lead.

We can accomplish more together than we can alone.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.