Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

Have faith in the light you carry.

Faith is believing in something you cannot prove for certain.

Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.

And so I tell you, restless one, that no matter what happens, when things get dark, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

Where does your soul walk? Does it walk in the sunlit woods or hide in the shadowy forest?

I didn't just see a child in my dreams—I felt it in my heart.

Where does your soul walk?

Lack of knowledge leads to rejection by God.

When giving up is not an option, you survive at any cost.

You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.

Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

To express unafraid and unashamed what one really thinks and feels is one of the great consolations of life.