Why don't you think of [God] as the one who is coming, who has been approaching from all eternity... the ultimate fruit of a tree whose leaves we are.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

That is fundamentally the only courage which is demanded of us: to be brave in the face of the strangest, most singular and most inexplicable things that can befall us

perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys

Let your judgements have their own quiet, undisturbed development, which must, like all progress, come from deep within, and cannot in any way be pressed or hurried.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

Either I would change lives or end them. The second option is always available.

Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

It is with tremendous excitement and pride that EMILY's List endorses Senator Hillary Clinton for president.

So the effect of this Republican provision to allow doctors to be gagged from even discussing abortion with their patients is outrageous.

Living above your means is financial sin.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.