If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within.

No art ever came out of not risking your neck.

it doesn t matter if it takes a long time getting there; the point is to have a destination.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

People are mostly layers of violence and tenderness wrapped like bulbs, and it is difficult to say what makes them onions or hyacinths.

With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

When gravitational waves reach the earth, the waves stretch and squeeze space. This is a tiny stretch and squeeze. Far too small to detect with ordinary human senses.

One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.

It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

You need to have an idea of those who are going to buy your products/services