You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

To see more than a reflection requires us to filter what we see, to view the world with honest eyes.

I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.

Tantric Buddhists don't believe in sin. Stupidity, yes, meaning we make ourselves or others suffer.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed.

...Blessed is anyone who knows who he or she really is and builds a place to live there.