People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

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.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

Not only is diversity allowed within the People of God

If you do not get the chills when you set your goal you're not setting big enough goals.

Vengeance is mine, sayeth the Lord, but sometimes it's hard not to get a jump on it yourself.

The self-portrait is an act of objectifying the self and in that regard is a unique form of portraiture.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

Worrying is trying to figure out what to do to save yourself rather than trusting in God for deliverance.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.