People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

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.

Forgiveness is the most compassionate way toward the peace.

God's Love for you through Christ Jesus is more than a Valentine's card or gift.

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.

A credit card allows you transcend time. For it allows you to put off until tomorrow what you bought today, while you are still paying off what you bought yesterday.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.

The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.