For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

Joblessness sets you free

absolute power is corrupting

And then I noticed the dandelions.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Someone invent a NO LIFE alert so you can push a button and tons of people show up and hang out with you.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Quantum field theory, which was born just fifty years ago from the marriage of quantum mechanics with relativity, is a beautiful but not very robust child.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

Even people who don't share my specific faith (denomination, beliefs, etc.) are typically enthusiastic about my profession of faith in God and my commitment to living to God-given standards.