Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

It was becoming evident to many that while evil grows all by itself, good can be achieved only through hard struggle and maintained only through tireless effort, ..

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.

The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

Have an attitude of gratidude and you will have more to be grateful for; have a complaining spirit and you will attract more to complain about.