The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

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.

Read the Scripture to renew your mind.Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.Affirm the Scripture to revive your spirit

If one suffers we all suffer. Togetherness is strength. Courage.

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

In the game of life, nothing is less important than the score at halftime.

Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

Sometimes we don't appreciate what we have until it's gone.

Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.

In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers.