It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.

Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.

Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

In this world, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.

People are like animals. Some are happiest penned in, some need to roam free. You go to recognize what's in her nature and accept it.

Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail- the gumption to try and save ourselves- isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's time.

Science only goes so far, then comes God.- Noah Calhoun-

Magically, hopelessness gives rise to profound hope.

we are so scornful when we are young!

My go-to default is to try to be nice, which I feel does less harm in the long run than trying to be, say, assertive. If I am nice and maybe too passive, I find that easier to live with.

Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

Every discord is a harmony not understood. Happiness is a disease, and pain, a medicine.

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.