You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.

Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

All nature's diff'rence keeps all nature's peace.

The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false.

I don't want to lose my accent, I just want it to become smaller.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?