Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.

...perhaps it wasn't a matter of strength so much as pliability, a willingness to let life become unpredictable and sometimes even unravel.

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable, " though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.

Out there is South Dakota, " Kitch had said, "Matt said they treated Fern like some kind of animal.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Australia has always encouraged the little bloke to have a go, the Aussie battler to get up.

I'm funny because I'm funny. And there's more to offer.

You should see me without makeup.

The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service.

If you push through that feeling of being scared, that feeling of taking risk, really amazing things can happen.

Love is so complicated, that is why it is love.

I definitely feel there's room for improvement.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.