When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim, the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.

Your transformation will begin the moment you stop worrying for someone rise to rescue you.

We're all in the human race. The question is, are you running toward your dreams or just away from your fears?

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.

Opening to love will always involve risk, but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory.

Strangely incurious, her lovers from before. She has worlds within I'm longing to explore.

She had a very inconvenient heart. It always insisted on feeling things ever so deeply.

She thirsted for love, but found only a mirage. Some hearts are a desert you can die wandering in.

I want to hold you close, skin on skin, and let our heartbeats have a conversation.

Unlike temporal leadership, in which violence and death often proliferate, Christ’s rule signifies reunion between predator and prey, malefactors and innocents.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.

Defense is one man guarding the ball and four others helping him

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'

The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.