She prayed for that all through the night, uncertain to Whom or what, but with a feeling that almost resembled faith.

You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.

I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.

To be touched with love was a kind of miracle.

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.

It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.

I was discouraged when I read that [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell said that Trans-Pacific Partnership was dead, but then I was told he turned around and said, "No, it's not."

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

Are your eyelashes like your hair?” “Yes. They’re very beautiful—want to see?” Her lips twitched. “Vanity is a sin,Bluebell.” “When you have it, flaunt it, I say.” -Elena and Illium

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

I stand for a strong state that safeguards freedom. I don't need to show muscle for that.