Tragedy cannot be the end of our lives. We cannot allow it to control and defeat us.

For any human being, freedom is essential, crucial, to our dignity and our ability to be fully human.

Anger and violence in Gaza and among Gazans is completely predictable. In a situation like ours, the absence of violence and anger would be abnormal. All of of us feel angry at least occasionally.

...you shouldn’t hate something you don’t know, because it may turn out to be the bearer of your greatest good fortune.

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

Reshuffllng of thoughts - facilitates a refreshed perspective to a mental deadlock!

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.

The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.