Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.

What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.

Beginnings start without shade,Thinner than minnows.The live grass whirls with the sun,Feet run over the simple stones,There's time enough.Behold, in the lout's eye, love.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.

How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end.

May my silences become more accurate.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Love is not love until love's vulnerable.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.

When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.

Turn your failure into a fairy tale of success and triumph.

When wisdom overrides, our heart produces immense ideas with solution

Every dimension of your suffering will instruct you, until you have learned your essential lessons.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

My father had all kinds of instruments in the house that he would hide from my mother. He bought them through mail order!

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.

We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.

I don't really think of writing as a career. It's something that happened to me. By working harder than I knew it was possible to work, I have become passable at it.

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

One who loves God retains this humility at all times, not with weariness and struggle, but with pleasure and gladness.