Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

A Set Back is only a Set Up for a Come Up!

Space Mountain may be the oldest ride in the park, but it has the longest line.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

For the West, they wanted to undermine the Syrian positions. For the petrodollar countries like Saudi Arabia, they're thinking undermining Syria will undermine Iran on sectarian basis.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

Storms are not afraid of you; all you must do is not to afraid of the storms too!

I think when you get on with the actors that you're working with, even if you do have really intimate scenes, as long as you get on well, and have a bit of a laugh while doing it, then it's fine.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.