I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

To feel alone is to be alone.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

Peace is power.

Plant the trees just for beauty, If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends.

I like to sleep. I like to do nothing. Nothing is my favorite kind of something.

You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.

People can text with two hands and are so fast and I am not... I just have that one person I want to talk to.

Truthfully, with the Republicans, I don't see that much wrong with them.

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.