The less you think you are, the more you bear. And if you think you are nothing, you bear everything.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Matthew 10:34“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Confidence is the quiet assurance you are enough.

She had always loved the stars. But tonight, she felt as if they were watching her, waiting for her to fail.

We take most everything at face value. Otherwise how could we get by?" ~ "The Museum of the Dearly Departed

I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.

When I think of people I am close to, I genuinely feel that I can include Josh Lyman, Toby Ziegler, C.J. Cregg and Sam Seaborn.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

Hold your own. Know your name. And go your own way. And everything will be fine.

I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.