What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

When you lose someone, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time.

I don't need proof, I have faith.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person's history from their face.

Prayer changes things.

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live.

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."

If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot.