The first bout of warm spring rain caused normally respectable women to pull off their stockings and run through muddy puddles alongside their children.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Nothing is build, just like that, everything around the world has some value and the purpose.

Grief demands answers but one doesn't always get them.

What do you have (talents, idea, contacts, a voice, strength)? God uses what you have to give you what you don't have.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

When the bottom falls out and disappointments come, you will learn what you believe, what you love, and what you treasure.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.

Everything is unpredictable once you are inside the ring.