Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

Alliteration seems to offend people.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.