I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

We can only lose what we have first claimed.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

I hope you can someday forgive me.''I forgive you now.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

Fallen man is both terrified of vulnerability and committed to maintaining independence.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.