What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.