Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

I love you not because you are deserving of my love but because it is my number one duty as a Christian.There is no Christianity without true love!

it's a lot easier to be lost than found.

There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.

Best scene in college football is at LSU on a Saturday night.

Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer's day.

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.

O Yes, I must sing, and so must you sing also. For all music is singing, and in music there is praise of life.