Our problem as Americans -- at least, among my race and gender -- is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to explain to anyone else and don't fully understand myself but that are nonetheless compelling.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I think I've done a pretty good job of not compartmentalizing my life. I take my core values and I live them out at home like I would in my snowboarding like I would at church with my friends.

Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

To silence the Voice of God is damnation in time!

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

But presidents matter. That's one of the biggest lessons I learned being in the White House.