How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

No matter how long your night may have been, as the earth remains, your morning will definitely come.

The closer we come to understanding the challenges of autism, the better we are placed to accommodate and educate without risking removing that individuality we all love.

Xav!Got you. Not letting you go.I realised I wasn't alone in mental deep space

I don't ever want to be sad about my life.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.

The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?

I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.