The scars are just something that happened to me. They aren't me. Not anymore.

Now I understand - how sleep allows you to forget, but your pain wakes with the dawn, worse because for a split second you don't remember what you've suffered.

I don't understand how the pain of losing him can be a pale shadow in comparison to the pain of finding him again.

But recognizing the ridiculousness of an emotion and being able to master it are two very different things, I'm finding.

And maybe that's love, too - feeling the other person's hurts like your own.

No one controls who we turn into but us.

The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways.

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

Frankly our government has no idea what they're doing on many, many fronts, folks.

In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]