The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

weeping...betraying a sense of loss so huge and irreparable that the mind balks at taking its measure.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it.

Children can be harsh judges when it comes to their parents, disinclined to grant clemency.

As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.