I'd just rather not reap a crop every year.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

I inhale hope with every breath I take.

…she remembered watching a summer sunset from this very spot. Not so long ago; just a lifetime.

Poor Wales. So far from Heaven, so close to England.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

Why is it honesty when a man speaks his mind and madness when a woman does?

When does he ever think?" Richard straddled a chair and accepted a wind cup from Raoul. "If he were to sell his brain, he could claim it had never been used.", Chapter 7

During the day, memories could be held at bay, but at night, dreams became the devil's own accomplices.

Whoever risks, shall know how far they can reach.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

You can't just play on the edge of games - you have to be in the thick of it.

I rage against Vincent van Gogh for needing to die at 37, after painting for only ten years.

Art opens the closets, airs out the cellars and attics. It brings healing.

The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily familiar with each other. They are actually friends.

I just couldn't live without dogs

The world it changing very quickly and we can't wait another 50 years!