Why are we embarassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?
When you look into your mother’s eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.
She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.
There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.