I would like to think she turns around and goes home and does one thing differently that day because of what she has imagined, and again the day after that, and the day after that.

But water doesn't care for human sorrows. It flows without slowing or quickening its pace in the darkness of the earth, where only stones will hear.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Silence is not empty or immaterial, and it is not needed to chain tame things. It often guards powers strong enough to shatter everything.

The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.

Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

The issue of transsexualism is an ethical one that has profound social and moral ramifications.

The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

The true Christian is a communicator.

Negative thinkers always have a negative vision.