What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.

No one says: I broke rules, I broke rules, I broke rules - I broke all the rules. That one. And that one. And that one too. Yes, I did.

Ah, when love dies, women lose two and a half inches in height.

Our holy duty is to pray. The answer belongs to God.

Destiny is desire meeting opportunity. You become who you are driven to be.

But it's easier to say 'I love you', than 'Yours, sincerely' I suppose.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

I suppose ultimately I'm interested in music. I'm a musician. I'm not a gunslinger. That's the difference between what I do and what a lot of guitar heroes do.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.