Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

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In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning.

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

Every journey has a destination, known or unknown.

If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives — and they do — then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness…

If I start giving people what they like I'll turn into one of them and I don't want to be one of them I want to be one of me.

He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor).

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.

If you don't know what you're being asked to do, make sure you clarify. I think people in every business are afraid to ask questions.

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.