My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

The search for Jesus is about reconciling loss and tragedy to God and us.

To be or to do? Which way will you go?

You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

I can't live where I want to, I can't go where I want to go, I can't do what I want to, I can't even say what I want to. I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at least paint as I wanted to.

How'd you like to gaze at a beer can throughout eternity? It might not be so bad. There'd be nothing to fear.

I don't read the papers, I don't gamble, I don't even know what day it is.

I thought I would be a guy on the radio.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.