For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
Dwarf is dwarf even at the top of the mountain; giant is giant even at the bottom of the well!
There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!
If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!
An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!
As long as your curiosity is greater than your fear, you will move forward!
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!
…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [. . . ] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America?
I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad.
The lust of the flesh directs these desires [of personal union], however, to satisfaction of the body, often at the cost of a real and full communion of persons.
I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.