make only your trust in God

Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired. His arm can’t be repaired. He will always be broken because of me.

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward.

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

My mother Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck was a pianist who studied with Dame Myra Hess and Tobias Matthey. As a child in California I used to listen to her play Chopin.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.

I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me