I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

Tears don't bring people back." Pain stabs from my chest to my fingertips."Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They are for us. So that we can remember and celebrate and miss them and feel human.

Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.

Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity

God is in desperate search for those sons he could send to the world of sports to rule and manage it for him

School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.

The skull is nature's sculpture.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

I would like a more missionary church,Not so much a tranquil church, but a beautiful church that goes forward.

I always like to play with my kids. I always have the time to do that. That's my priority, always has been, so just interacting with my kids, and being with them is great.

I get my ideas from listening from within.