Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.

As a young man on the streets of Derry, I saw Ian Paisley as an immortal opponent of everything to do with equality, justice, fairness, and respect for Irishness.

One must wait till it comes.

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle.

Growth is what we all need and what we all strive for because we want to get better and better and better each day.

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.