I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

I believe that God is carrying us whether we know it or not and is always present. I love what C.S. Lewis said - "You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body."

War is a farmer’s son from Kansas trying to kill a factory worker’s son from Berlin, with neither of them knowing why.

I soared above the song birds And never heard them sing I lived my life in winter And then you brought the spring

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.

Maybe the gift of any great person is the power to converse with our own hearts.

Please don't take my wings...

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.

You are actually reproducing yourself when you invest your life.

There is a purpose in life’s struggles. Without them, we stay the same.

Somewhere deep inside, his humanity had been shaken by something so unnatural, so foreign in its essence, his very being withdrew from it...

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

...[We] must stop these swarms of Jews who are trading, bartering and robbing.