Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

If you hold on to the handle, it's easier to maintain the illusion of control. But it's more fun if you just let the wind carry you.

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

Baseball reveals character; golf exposes it.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

One goes to the right, the other to the left; both are wrong, but in different directions.

If you recognize a face while surfing through 200 channels, you will stop and listen. Celebrities give a positive aura and people like them. Their message appeals to people.

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

We're a country that abhors the government. From Reagan on, many people think the government is the enemy in the United States.

On the bright side," Percy said, "both Jason and I outrank you, Octavian. So we can both tell you to shut up.