“Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thess. 5:18).”

“Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3).”

“Absent in body but present in spirit.”

“Yet man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.”

“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?”

“Here am I send me.”

“But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.”

“There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.”

“Perhaps the one unanswerable question in life is why so many of us choose to live in a fantasy world of our own creation that offers us nothing but pain.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”