He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet.

A man's weakest spots are almost always closest to his passions.

...your heart spoke for you. You gave up everything for me.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people.

Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.

Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.

Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together.