“All churches are an echo of thisthe Cathedral of Nature.”

“To love the creations of the Earth is to worship the Being who created them.”

“Darling, I would follow you through the blackest midnightjust not without my trousers!”

“I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.”

“In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silencewishing, waiting, hoping, praying.”

“One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.”

“Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourselfsomething you cannot prove for certain.”

“Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of ones thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patter...”

“Not maybe. Definitely! We have an expression back home in Haiti, which says something like a man who is thinking with his penis. That is what you are Michael. That doesnt mean that you are addicted...”

“He owe his wife a debt he couldn't hope to pay with any coin save one: open the cage and let the bird fly.”

“He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Ho...”

“After that day, I discovered one indelible truth. I discovered that love wasnt everything that mattered in life. It was an emotion that not many had the luxury of feeling without any pain attached ...”

“No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageT...”

“What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [owyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”

“I slept under the moonlight and set my soul free, caged within jars like fireflies".”