We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.

Families without songs are unhappy families.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.