Heavy rains and a good book. A perfect extravagance.

Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.

Becoming a man means doing the right thing even though it may be hard or difficult. Boys do what is easiest. A man does what is right, whether easy or not.

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both.

Reading teaches us the nuances of humanity. To find the beauty of what is moral and ethical in your own actions and discover the strange subtlety of what it is to question why you should exist.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is.

Sometimes we make being happy so difficult. And being thankful such a chore.

Time. Either you are for it or against it. So be here now. Not later.

Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty.

I gather the last remnants of the evening’s breeze, so cool and lazy within my arms, feeling it curl up like a small and innocent kitten.

We don't belong to ourselves.

The spirit and the soul sustained by grace.

Always our action counts for our success, not our time.

A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

Only the soul that loves is happy

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

Too often new ideas are studied and analyzed until they are suffocated.