Don't let the cat out or the concierge in: this is the first principle of socialist ladies.

When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

People aim for the stars, and they end up like goldfish in a bowl. I wonder if it wouldn't be simpler just to teach children right from the start that life is absurd.

There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain beauty.

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

With the exception of love, friendship and the beauty of Art, I don't see much else that can nurture human life.

The real ordeal is not leaving those you love but learning to live without those who don't love you.

When tea becomes ritual, it takes place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.

The reason I have felt so empty, so lost at times, is because you were missing.

The assumption that the gospel can be reduced to a note card is already off on the wrong track.

You may recite or listen to countless scriptures, but you will not be established within until you can forget everything.

Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference

Don't let someone feel like they are following you and don't let yourself feel like you are following someone.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

The resource from which God gives is boundless, measureless, unlimited, unending, abundant, almighty, and eternal.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

If you're going to re-invent healthcare you have to start from scratch.