I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

I am always jumping into the sausage grinder and deciding, even before I’m half ground, that I don’t want to be a sausage after all.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.