Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don't have food - that's not news. This is grave. We can't rest easy while things are this way.
Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Anytime new insight replaces an old assumption or a fossilized perception is the spring. New understandings sprout, new tolerances appear, and new curiosity draws you to previously dark places. Just as the sun shines earlier and longer in the spring,...
The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched ...
Vincent Hanna: You know, we are sitting here, you and I, like a couple of regular fellas. You do what you do, and I do what I gotta do. And now that we've been face to face, if I'm there and I gotta put you away, I won't like it. But I tell you, if i...
Sunflowers, Not Facing the Sun (A Poem) I stand tall As gracious as one could be Blooming to my best As slender as it touches my being Everyone else is facing the sun Bending towards its unfathomable galore They and I are both undoubtedly Grown on th...
The wife carries the husband on her face; the husband carries the wife on his clothes.
Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people.
A beautiful face is admired even when its owner doesn't say anything.
Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune.
A brave man will face a situation no matter how dreadful.
Ashes always fly back in the face of him who throws them.
There has to be news at a place called Fox News.
Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
Put something sweet in his mouth and send good news to the heart.
It is much harder to lie to someone's face. But. It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.
Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.
She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.
Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen.
