“The first thing I remember about the world — and I pray that it may be the last — is that I was a stranger in it.”

“I'm trying to remember what I felt about a certain cypress tree and I feel if I remember it, it will last me quite a long life.”

“I could not remember my first kiss, but I could have told you Charlotte would be my last.”

“But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.”

“The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.”

“I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”

“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, to-night!
You may forget the warmth he gave,
I will forget the light.

When you have done, pray tell me,
That I my thoughts may dim;
Haste! lest while you're lagging,
I may remember him!”

“Antonio always prayed in the room before the fight at the last when the well-wishers and the followers were gone. If there was time at the ring nearly everyone slipped into the chapel to pray once before the paseo. Antonio knew I prayed for him and never for myself. I was not fighting and I had quit praying for myself during the Spanish Civil War when I saw the terrible things that happened to other people and I felt that to pray for oneself was selfish and egotistical.”

“If dreams of flying are the last hope of freedom, I will pray for wings with my last breath.”

“I do desire we may be better strangers.”