True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
The curse of true love never did run smooth.
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, & everything else, they balance the ranks, colors, races, creeds, and the sexes,...
That word. I would have given anything to hear her say it over the summer, to have had the chance to say it back, but now, more than ever, I understand its true power. How it can make you ache as much as it can make you soar. How it shouldn't be said...
Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are 'subject' to authority. The one who is fully like us, who de...
Listening in the spiritual life is much more than a psychological strategy to help others discover themselves. In the spiritual life the listener is not the ego, which would like to speak but is trained to restrain itself, but the Spirit of God withi...
You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend tha...
We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape the necessity of love and compassion.... This, then, is my true religion, my simple faith. In this sense, there is no need for temple or church, for mosque o...
True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together, and then, of course,...
There is a fine line between friendship and parenting, and when that line is crossed, the result is often disastrous. A parent who strives to make a true friend of his or her child may well sacrifice authority, and though the parent may be comfortabl...
We have to have the faithful in government.
I have faith in my imperfections!
My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.
Faith is the receiver of grace; unbelief is the rejector.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
...the Big Red Machine was exactly that—a freaking machine.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
For me, adoption was grief in reverse.
It's not your fault you had an unwanted dick in you.
