Limitation is a good discipline because it discourages inappropriate generalization, which distracts attention from the profound, particular complexity that characterizes anything at all.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go.

Why am I not good at anything?""You're a good dad.""It ain't rocket science."No, Vic thought. It was harder.

Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.

in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

We hate the hawk because he ever lives in battle.

Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers

I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.