These little daily choices that we're so used to thinking are irrelevant are the most important thing we do all day long.

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.

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

I'm fast for a cruiserweight.

Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.

My music is about being strong, even in your vulnerability

Science built the Academy, superstition the Inquisition.

A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.

All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced...the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.