We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

If Fang is in any way harmed while I'm gone-if he gets a hangnail-you won't see another morning. Are we clear on that?

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

If you have a problem in mass society, you call the cops. The experts. You no longer have any operative connection with yourself or others, or with a functioning community.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.

It is well known that panic, despair, depression, hate, rage, exasperation, frustration all produce negative biochemical changes in the body.

I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.

Content is fire. Social media is gasoline.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.