“You ask me to forgive you? Im thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty.”

“The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. Its not all about fun. Its not always easy.”

“Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells.”

“You cant really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesnt work because it cant love back.”

“Hero love? I was puzzled. You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they r...”

“You ask me to forgive you? I’m thanking you. You finally loved me in that moment, and that love set me free, released me from my sworn duty.”

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”

“I live alone," he said simply. "I live in the open. I hear the waves at night and see the black patterns of the pine boughs against the sky. With sound and silence and color and solitude, of course...”

“It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. It is hard to desecrate a grove and change your mind. The very holy mountains are keeping mu...”

“You are the gatekeeper to your life and your home. You get to decide who or what comes in and what needs to stay out. If it doesn't contribute to the peaceful home you are now trying to have, then ...”

“Saying yes comes very easily to me and, more often than not, I get into situations that could have been avoided by using the magical two letter word, NO. Then I sit back and regret having said yes ...”

“If you spend your life sparing peoples feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you cant distinguish what should be respected in them.”

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”

“But joy is individual, and can only be experienced alone. Hell is communal, but Heaven is personal.”

“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”