I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.
One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.
She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.
You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.
Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.