I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
When I am willing, all sound is available to me.
Peace can start with just one heart.
People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting of me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil - let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.