Why did I laugh at his sorry, bedraggled appearance? Because ridiculousness made a repellant situation more bearable.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.

Because you showed one face to all the rest of the world, and another to me.

They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass." He carried me into our room and kicked the door shut behind us.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

May the mysteries that confound you, be unraveled.

I am grateful to all my readers

The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .

You don't have to have perfect wisdom to get very rich - just a bit better than average over a long period of time.

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

If I think, I am lost.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.