I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.

It was the first time in years I didn’t wonder if my father was out there, looking at it too.

Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

I seldom speak on songs, as in when people ask me for fave songs. I really have only fave parts.

What political leaders decide, intelligence services tend to seek to justify.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so.