Once you hear something, you can never return to the time before you heard it.

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.

Gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of the human heart.

A bird must have faith in its wings in order to fly.

The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

Everyone loves Disney, it just has a special place in everyone's heart

Work is fundamental to the dignity of the person. Work, to use an image, 'anoints' with dignity, fills us with dignity, makes us similar to God who has worked and still works, who always acts.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

A beggarly people, A church and no steeple.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.