Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

Pain is only what you allow it to be

You want someone in the ballpark and then you grow together. Thats what a relashionship's about: changing each other.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.

We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. What we hear people saying is thank you for being fair; thank you for being balanced.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?

The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.