Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'
I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC
If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter if he was God or not?
Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous.