... love dreads being isolated, being left to speak in a void -- at the beginning it would often rather listen than speak.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Reality is based mainly on knowledge, what you do not know doesn't exit for you.

Here's how I'll tell you what I think—if you see white smoke then you know I picked a new pope. And if I'm drinking a Snapple then you know I don't give a shit.

Who can separate his faith from his actions or his belief from his occupations?

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

Speak in your authentic voice because people have a BS Meter

Say "NO" without guilt. Say "YES" without fear.

One never gets the same summer twice.

Courage is knowing what to fear.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.