Greatness is not always good.

It was like watching a movie being played on the blank screen of his mind; the only difference was that he did not get bored, no matter how many times he watched it.

Memories are powerful that way. They can bring back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.

I look around the room and can't help but think about how it is the little things we look back on in life. I wonder how often people think that they should pay more attention to them.

You gotta look backwards to go forwards.

I think so much maybe it never ends when this night ends there's another at hand I sleep with one and wake with one with everything else on this life goes on.

She held the book in her hands, feeling a sense of awe, and lightly ran a finger over its cover as if it contained sacred writings.

They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way - off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound...

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

It was his wedding day, and then it was any day; it was nothing, and then it was forever.

Prayer is a spiritual act.

Children teach us more than our elders because they are a real reflector of our society.

You are looking at the world from your window, that's good, but there is something missing here, something very big: You must also look at your window from the world to see yourself!

Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental...

Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mist out of earshot.

Can you imagine life without a book?

It is the beauty of life that makes our lives worth living.

Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit. I snap sticks beneath my feet and steal pictures of...

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

I never went dancing again.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Why don't you read the Good News of God.

We must experience certain things in life, even in our childhood, so we can later look back and value the journey.

One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us... on the inside, looking out.

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be...

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things."

Too bad there wasn't a Valencia filter to smooth out memories.

A bullet hole in my bedroom door was a grim reminder of December 7, 1941, and of an entire nation which had not been sufficiently awake…