But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day.

We always look behind, through, and beyond ourselves, never within.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

There's conflict on every continent, the poverty rate is increasing, the environment's a wreck, and I'm not supposed to be affected?

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.