I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

I wish you had one of those fairy telescopes that can look into the hearts and souls of people a thousand leagues off, then you might see how much you possess my mind.

The mirror can lie. It doesn’t show you what’s inside.

I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.