Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it.

A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.

Success-minded people need to understand that the small voice inside them is there for a reason.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

My songs are more arrangements than they are songs.