Humor shares an edge with hilarity.

Pain too much to handle also comes with exquisite beauty, as common as dirt, as unexpected as grace.

Horror shares an edge with hilarity.

There was healing in the tyranny, and tyranny in the healing.

In this waiting, there is witness.

The line between the living and the dead may not be much of a line at all, but the terrain is not for the weak of heart.

Honoring a life is honoring the wide open space of wilderness and unknowing where the sacred dwells.

Resurrection does not come without crucifixion, and you cannot celebrate Easter without living Good Friday.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

What is known might sometimes sustain us, but what is unknown will save us.

Grief would weave itself among the threads of love and life and hope, and I was starting to believe that what came of it all would still one day be beautiful.

You possess great strength and vitality.

Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

I'm an athlete. I'm strong. I'm tough. And that's how women should be. That's how they should be built.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Life is about balance. Be kind, but don’t let people abuse you. Trust, but don’t be deceived. Be content, but never stop improving yourself.