And in that vastness, it felt like every memory existed only to disappear one day.

And she realized everything one does is just another effort to be understood by someone a little bit more.

She carried a thousand lights inside her heart, and a thousand lights carried her.

The question of purpose and meaning becomes obsolete when you think beyond human life.

There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.

How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

I feel like people are not cut and dry, in real life. Some people do cheat, but it doesn't mean that they don't love. Sometimes in movies, it's one or the other.

I like you just the way you are.

Being evil is something that only humans are capable of.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

The security of faith does not make us motionless or close us off, but sends us forth to bear witness and to dialogue with all people.

Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.