Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

You wake from dreams of doom and--for a moment--you know: beyond all the noise and the gestures, the only real thing, love's calm unwavering flame in the half-light of an early dawn.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

God's power, gracious life.

Everything is subjective.

Helping others carries its own rewards, the first of which is a return to humanity.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.