The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It is nearly impossible to hate anyone whose story you know.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

How does it feel to be seven thousand years old?""That depends.""On what?""On how I want to feel.

Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God’s love.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression.

The only way for us to become great, or even inimitable if possible, is to imitate the Greeks.

I don't know that we'll get into Earth 1 thru 616 in any one moment anytime soon.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.