Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

He supposes in this way he's learned to pray not as one might to the gods but as one does by simply pausing every now and then to think of others.

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

War has been glorified by men who have never been shot at.

How can we explain such inclinations? They are forces within us that come from a deeper place than conscious words can express.They draw us to certain experiences and away from others.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

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That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

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If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.

From a yogic perspective, stillness, coupled with expanded awareness, is by far the most powerful medium by which you can affect your destiny.