“Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.”

“Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.”

“I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”

“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?”

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m sayin’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America.”

“What sweet, what happy days had I,
When dreams made Time Eternity!”

“Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us”

“And the whole world has to answer right now,
Just to tell you once again,
'Who's bad!”

“Miracles are like meatballs because nobody knows what they are made of, where they came from or how often they should appear.”