Sometimes caring for something already growing is more perilous than planting something new.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

You got up, and you did something. And if trying to find a way when you don't even know you can get there isn't a small miracle; then I don't know what is.

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

If we can't accept what we don't know, there really is no hope.

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

The past was the past; there was no escaping your beginnings.

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

I would like to direct.

Faith means that it doesn't matter what happens. You can trust that somebody is watching. Trust that somebody will make it all right.

all by all and deep by deep and more by more they dream their sleep noone and anyone earth by april wish by spirit and if by yes

Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

The universe is too grand and harmonious to believe it's all an accident.

We can change the narrative about Africa with content.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.