When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery. . . brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Human life is fiction's only theme.
One place understood helps us understand all places better
People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them - with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them.
I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.
Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you.
All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.