Of all the people in the world who could've won the seat next to mine at that playoff game... it was you, Gemma. You. The one person on the planet who might just understand me.

When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you.

Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love.

An idle mind doesn't do justice to its potential

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

O Lord, I cannot plead my love of Thee: I plead Thy love of me: - the shallow conduit hails the unfathomed sea.

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

Preaching, in the first sense of the word, ceased as soon as ever the gospel was written.

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark