You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.

Every sorrow suggests a thousand songs and every song recalls a thousand sorrows and so they are infinite in number and all the same.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me

When we did not move or speak, there was no proof that we were there at all.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Mysticism and supernaturalism are the descendants of ignorance and fear.

If you don’t know where you are going, ask those who have been there.

You might pass by those who're stuck in the bottle neck while you are swimming in your whiskey, be kind !

Life is a fairytale if we know how to write the story.

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

I continued to protect him with my silence.

The truth is, the longer it goes, the harder it gets.

The thing with children is they're a bit like baking a fruitcake: you throw all the ingredients in but you never know how they're going to turn out.

If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

And random bits of happiness, like Finnick and Annie's newborn boy.