Removing his helmet, Edward knelt by the stream called Swillgate, a name that effectively quenched any desire to drink from its depths.

Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are capable of sincere repentance, of genuine contrition.

We tend to forget at times that it is the little ones, the children, who do suffer the greatest hurt. If we cannot comprehend why certain sorrows are visited upon us, how on earth can they?

She opened her mouth, clamped it shut again. This was new, this sudden favor shown Gloucester, had been brought back with him from Burgundy like some malevolent foreign pox.

It is often difficult to educate a child about the beauty of an open mind when he is a prisoner of societal conformity.

In tears, we labour for what we want.

One who speaks ‘completely’ negative creates karmic obstructions (antray) and ‘positive’ does not create any obstruction (antray).

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.

I scoop Emmy winners like kitty litter.

Change is the essence of life; change is the great challenge, the great constant. Change is the ultimate teller of tales.

If you can learn to love the imperfect people in your family then it's possible that someone can learn to love a imperfect you.

Worse than blind leaders of the blind are bland leaders of the bland.