Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
The world was hers for the reading.
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all life holds, joyful or sorrowful--is fulfillment. The fullness of life is open to all of us.
The relations between countries in the coming decade are most likely to reflect their cultural commitments, their cultural ties and antagonism with other countries.
Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.
Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.