As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.

We truly believed in something back then, and we knew we were the kind of people capable of believing in something - with all our hearts. And that kind of hope will never simply vanish.

Aren't you afraid of dying?Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.

The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily.

Every person should decide for himself how happy, or unhappy, our society might be.

I've been clinging to this world like a discarded shell of an insect stuck to a branch, about to be blown off forever by a gust of wind.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither of us know anything substantial about the other.

People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.

At some point paradise would be lost.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking.

Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.

Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can’t. Or won’t.

Everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel it very deeply.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.