Each of us is ultimately alone.

That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

Often things are as bad as they seem.

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

To live without the creative potential of our own destructiveness is to be a cardboard angel.

Everything good is costly, and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty. (10)

Often morality defines our inner philosophy.

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

I was a stranger and ye took me in.

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Let's all help each other be a little bit better at being human beings.

We are not saved by good deeds; we are saved for good deeds. Jesus transforms us to transform others.

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Poet's food is love and fame.