I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

We cannot go backward. We cannot erase time and events. But we can go forward, hand in hand, hope in our hearts and love lighting our way.

Only the strongest are put through the fire,' Josiah said. 'And the forge creates things of great strength and beauty.' 'Then I shall be truly glorious by the time my tenure ends.

Do you love me?" he asked. I fell silent. "For the rest of it is glitter and noise," he said. "At the heart of it all is love. You make that choice, and you go forward from there.

He is so kind that he makes me search my soul to find new ways to be compassionate to others.

I am who I am, born that way, and will die that way.

I have changed for the last time--this is the man I will be till I die. And that man loves you.

A truth that no one knows is still the truth.

He leaned upon her as if there was no other support anywhere in the world, and she held him as if she would undertake no other task for all eternity.

If mankind's greatest achievement is to produce more spaces for mankind to live in, I do not think I am so impressed.

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

We all know the protocol. But more powerful than our protocol is our grooming to believe in something more.

You Englishmen, ’ said Herr Wurter. ‘You are all the same. Wherever you are you behave as if you were at home and your word was law.

There was that sense of we had turned the corner. All of that time, all of that work, all of that effort – we were poised to make that next jump.

It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.

I definitely listened to country music. I don't think I listened to hair bands as much as I did Bruce Springsteen and U2 and Aerosmith.

I stumble all the time parenting my daughter. I ask her for forgiveness all the time and I preach forgiveness to her.

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage.

God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.