If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe.

It was all her doing. She had cried wolf and the wolf had come.

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.

Remember where you have been and know where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way.

Jazz music will continue to thrive, possibly in unexpected ways.

Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

People need to have the incentive that if they invest and succeed, they can make a fair profit. Otherwise they'll stop investing.

Every corny thing that's said about living with nature - being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons - happens to be true.