Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.
Sometimes, they say, the moon is so busy with the new souls of the world that it disappears from the sky. That is why we have moonless nights. But in the end, the moon always returns, as do we all.
Most of us all walk around as if we’re sleepwalking. We really don’t experience the world fully, because we’re half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.
If God wants it, it will happen.
But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.
Love each other or die.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...
Never tell a child that something it’s too hard.
The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.
The word ‘commitment’ has lost it’s meaning. I’m old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don’t want to tie yourself down...
There is a time for hello and a time for good-bye. It’s why the act of burying thing seems natural, but the act of digging them up does not.
Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.
You can’t get stuck on what should have happened. That doesn’t help you.
In a newspaper, you only have so much room. It teaches you the value of getting to the point, of not pampering yourself with your glorious writing. I’ve always been much more interested in one powerful sentence that stays with you. That’s my style.
Sometimes, love brings you together even as life keeps you apart.
We don’t see what we could be. We should be looking at our potential, stretching ourselves into everything we can become.
As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever really going away.
I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.
She had a bottomless well of love for me.