The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.

Things had improved after he was born. We both loved him with such fervor that it was impossible that some wouldn’t splash back on us.

I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.

I’m a holiday Christian at best and I’d never given much thought to demons. They were an adult version of the boogieman hiding in every kid’s closet.

There is a restlessness within us that cannot be satisfied until we rest fully in God.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions... by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings, and, with each, therefore, a new idea, new inventions, and new applications.

Making new friends is tough. You don't really know who to trust when you're away from people that you love a lot.

Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.