We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.

Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.

We need to be ready all the time for attacks of the enemy

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.

No matter how poorly you play, there is always someone you can beat. No matter how well you play, there is always someone who can beat you.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.

No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others.

... life is too short to do the whole.