Take time to see the quiet miracles thatseek no attention

Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.

When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

Inspiration is always a surprising visitor.

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

God is everything in every where.

I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Mingle some brief folly with wisdom now: To be foolish is sweet at times.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required.

I'm about to commence four years of obeying the cause of a bruiser on a horse. I refuse to put down what might be the last book I see for months.

I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral.