The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

I would like to achieve a state of inner spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of God.

war is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

I do not like talking casually to people - it does not interest me - and most of them are unwilling to talk at all seriously.