I had to grow up and learn to listen for the unspoken as well as the spoken-and to know a truth.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

You can curse the darkness, or you can dispel it.

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

Islamic terrorism is the handiwork of people who've heeded, not hijacked, Islam. Or so says [Wafa] Sultan.

If you fail to pay your bill by 9 AM tomorrow morning your service will be discontinued.

Evolution is the secret for the next step.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

I mostly want to be friends with my children.