A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

But then it passed, as all things do.

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything

What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

For you, a thousand times over

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world