I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.

We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

We have to have positive male role models.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.