It’s much easier to be cruel than one might think.

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.

I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you.

To be different is to seek God earnestly

I love teaching; I love little kids.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

Who are the militia, if they be not the people, of this country...? I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

He who can make distinction in God without number or quantity, knows that the three persons of the Trinity are one God.

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.