Love was like the waves in the sea, gentle and good sometimes, rough and terrible at others, but that it was endless and stronger than the sky and earth and everything in between.

People can be cruelest to those they love.

You can't be miserable when you're running. It's such a simple and pure way to feel alive.

We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes.

How do you restart something that had never been turned off?

Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things.

Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

An oath is a promise-and a promise can be made regardless of feeling.

If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?

A good dream was something you clung to until the last moment before waking.

And it's always better, isn't it, when you discover answers on your own?

The true wealth of a nation is not their natural resources but their achievements in education.

An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

A desperate plea to the Trinityis not something you can justapologize for in the morning-Drunk Dialing the Divine

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

We are born charming fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.

A difficult decision for the referee's assistant. I wouldn't beat him up over it.

As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty.