...the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio...

Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

Your mind is your most important asset because it creates everything you have in life.

Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias. For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies.

If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!

How can I blame the cherry blossomsFor rejecting this floating world And drifting away as the wind calls them

I can't say I'm willing, Lord, but I'm willing to be made willing.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

We should care about what is going on in the world.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole.