“The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.”

“There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.”

“I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go.”

“People see God every day, they just don't recognize him.”

“You must change in order to survive.”

“A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.”

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the me...”

“Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”

“Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“I am grateful for the white sheet - all my stories are his.”

“In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.”

“History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.”