The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven..

In the beginning, I had considered these stops on my journey as interruptions - but I'm coming to understand that perhaps these detours are my journe….

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside.

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not ….

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep….

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53].

Regret is the most tiresome of companions..

The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow th….

We are chained to that which we do not forgive.

Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings..

The truest indication of gratitude is to return what you are grateful for..

The kids who speak well, are articulate and intelligent, are all readers..

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance..

We can only lose what we have first claimed..

I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns….

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them..

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life..

Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling..

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing..

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath..

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it..