We planted flowers last year and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.

He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.

While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

I just feel fortune just to have been lucky enough, and worked hard enough, and blessed.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.