You have to set somebody free for them to return

Best that all mischief be undertaken behind a squeaky door

Do you know how a pearl comes to be?””Oysters make them, from a bit of sand.””Aiyah. From a bit of sand.” He rolled the pearl between his fingers. “All pearls begin as something unpleasant that...

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn.

Hunger is a wayOf standing outside windowsThe entering takes away.

To exemplify, -a beautiful glossy nut, which, blessed with original strength, has outlived all the storms of autumn. Not a puncture, not a weak spot any where. -This nut… while so many of its brethren...

If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That’s why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.

Everything you know gained from experience

She was starting to think that it might be fun to be in control of the universe.

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

It is indeed a curse to dream as you walk amongst the dreamless

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

What if he could see this, his own skull, yellow and eroded? Two centuries old. Would he still speak? Would he speak, if he could see it, the grinning, aged skull? What would there be...

(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with “imaginary riders”)Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and...

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

Intelligence is being intelligent enough to know you’re not so intelligent as you intelligently once thought.

I do, I am

The truth about life is complicated, indefensible and embarrassing.

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict.

The truth was always out there, you just had to find it.

Lead the people with administrative injunctions and put them in their place with penal law, and they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of shame. Lead them with excellence and put them...

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has...

Time plays no role in the life of one man—the subtle consciousness of it floating past me is more than enough. Years, months, days, hours, minutes, seconds—what does it matter? Floating by, it rubs against...

Maybe they were born of karma, their own or their parents’, Zack thought; maybe the universe had a purpose for them, and they were what they were because the world needed them to be that...

There is divinity within every soul.

The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it...

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is...

It saddens me beyond my tears that love is lost within the fears.

When God lays His finger on your heart it cannot help but be filled with love for others; if that doesn’t happen there is nothing wrong with God’s finger there is something wrong with your...

No es que escribir me produzca un gran placer, pero es mucho peor si no lo hago.

Things aren’t different. Things are things.

If you miss your bus, just start walking.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong...

One person’s garbage is another person’s commodity.

Always take a compliment, even if it’s not yours

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are...

For other people, I can’t speak – but, personally, I haven’t gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I’ve been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again....

We are all only men, defined by our choices.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

And yet hewas in the right! They were wrong and he was right. Theobvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truismsare true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its...

Running Doesn’t Change Anything…Dying Does.

God always prepare us for the great mission but we are unaware.All the stages are connected; we must graciously be fully present in each stage.

Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t have any money, and even though we’d like to think we’ll have it someday, we know we don’t...

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Aures habent et non audient` – `They have ears but hear not

You think that the world we live in is ordinary. We make noise and static to fill the empty spaces where ghosts live. We let other people grow our food, bleach our clothes. We seal...