One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

These black times go as they come and we do not know how they come or why they go. But we know that God controls them, as he controls the whole vast cobweb of the mystery of things.

The years stretched before her, a long and dusty way, yet if she could walk humbly along it she might find that life, unfolding slowly, keeps its best secrets till the end.

...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear, " he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

When you get a chance to work with Aaron Sorkin, you don't say no. You drop everything you're doing.

I was very lost as a teenager. Which is a horrible way to feel.

The gospel costs nothing but it demands everything.

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

Life is a climb and it's a struggle getting to the top but the drop to the bottom can be quick and so I think you have to embrace every moment of the day.

It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.

We like lists because we don't want to die.