The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

I'm looking over rooftops, and I'm hoping it ain't true, that the same God looks out for them, looks out for me and you.

Fear only has as much power as we give it space.

Every heart is a package tangled up in knots someone else tied.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

There was not a lot of room for someone like me, who kept the gossip mill running like a hamster wheel.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

There's no night without stars.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Pleasure is everything.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.

Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection.