Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.

My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

My memories are like a shuffled deck of cards, each one coming up at random.

Some memories are presents that I'm unable to unwrap over and over.

The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

Build up your faith while starving the fears.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.

The truest mark of your success in life will be the quality of your marriage

He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly.

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

Poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

I'm like the queen of planning and scheduling and I'm trying very hard to stop it.

Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.