Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.

The dead pull the living down.

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

A great life evolves with gratitude.

Emotional blackmails and psychological threats are the feces of a rotten soul.

When you turn the construction of your life over to God, He'll build something beautiful.

Inferiority complex begins when you agree that you are nothing. No one is responsible or author of it except yourself.

War can protect; it cannot create.

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

The universe does not make sense without God.

Everybody says "love you" to each other all the time. It's this lovely little safe world.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

If you are poor, shun association with him who measures men with the yardstick of riches.