What miracle is this? This giant tree. It stands ten thousand feet high But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands. Its roots must hold the sky.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

There are only two reasons to farm: because you have to, and because you love to. The ones who choose to farm choose for love.

Darren wasn’t darkness, and I wasn’t his light.

if we work together, we can do everything, if we just watch each other, we can do nothing

See every difficulty as a challenge, a stepping stone, and never be defeated by anything or anyone.

God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.

We are born for cooperation

You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.

Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.