Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.

To be forgiven is to be loved

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.

When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

Requiring accountability while also extending your compassion is not the easiest course of action, but it is the most humane, and, ultimately, the safest for the community.

When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.

To a pessimist, losing bobby pins is as hopeless as losing hair. To an optimist, losing hair gives hope to get the lost bobby pins back.

Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Habit: A shackle for the free.

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

I have composed too much.

Viewed as drama, World War I is somewhat disappointing.

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

Generally speaking, we can and should say everything. We just have to choose the right time, otherwise the truth can be worse than a lie.

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.