Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

To stretch the truth is to tell a lie.

It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved.

Conscience is less an inner voice than the memory of a mother's glance.

I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

The trick to writing an aphorism is to place a period at the point where you're inclined to say, "in other words.

We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.