I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.