Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

Even friends need private spaces, if only within the depths of their own souls, where no one else is allowed to intrude.

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Sometimes children do not realize by how fragile a thread their security hangs. Perhaps it is as well they do not - most of them grow up before the thread can be broken.

The longing for something beyond yourself, beyond anything you have ever known or dreamed of?

Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

Why is it, " she asked, snuggling closer, "that I so often imagine myself running away and running free?

And where love ends, hate begins

… there is no permanence or guarantee in this life.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.