The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky.

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists

Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.

It must be hard when you are a beautiful woman and no one will look at your soul.

Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable.

If I had the authority to pick and choose who gets to know Christ as Savior, that would make me God. Thank the one true God that I am not.

Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen.

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Sometimes it only takes three words, so long as they're the right words, to direct an actor in the right way.

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

You shouldn't be a prisoner of your own ideas.

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy