The world is made up of Stories, not Atoms.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The journey is my home.

If we look long enough and hard enough ... we will begin to see the connections that bind us together, and when we recognize those connections, we will begin to change the world.

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Reality is the completion of experience.

Okay, ” he said, his breath hitching, his hands shaking like hell as he pried her arms from around his neck and set her

It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

I'm never very good with marks. They're always like, 'You're not on your mark'. I was like, 'Oh, it's that thing you put on the ground? Yeah, I don't pay attention to it.'

Pain only matters when it happens to someone important.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

The warrior is always trying to improve.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

God is more interested in your character than your comfort. God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.