Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

Papa continually emphasizes how much remains unexplained. With the other psychoanalytic writers, everything is always so known and fixed.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Christianity is not about how much faith you have. Its about Who your faith is in.

Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.

A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person.

Audiences who behave obscene toward prominent people have no clue that their opinions can result others to have a bad impression on them.

He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle.

Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness, there's calm, there's physicality.

Sometimes that is the best part of a hard day.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.