I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

Art teaches something we all need to learn, especially about people who are different from ourselves: "To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swasatta) cannot arise.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

Usually when I'm writing, I kind of know what it is before I start writing and I write stream of consciousness style.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.