I know you look both ways before you cross the street, but I want you to look both ways a second time, because I told you to.

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.

The finder of his theme will be at no loss for words.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

The basic teachings of the Protestants were all surrounding values, ethics and morals

It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Make life an art rather than art from life.

If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

I tell you of all history the most beautiful product is the family tie.