Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
Yet it is only love which sets us free.
We are only as blind as we want to be.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.
Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.