It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

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.

Sometimes the words that are left unspoken are the ones that most needed to be said.

No ghosts need

There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.

Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.

Keep conscience clear, then never fear.

It is often easier to assemble armies than it is to assemble army revenues.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

We're going to put sanity back into the White House.

Education is the great engine to personal development.

Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.