We can understand the science of what makes a heart beat, but we can never stop it from breaking.

I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way.

Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn

O man, I beseech you do not treat God's promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but use them as every day sources of comfort. Trust the Lord whenever your time of need comes on.

Connecting to another is one of the most important things in the world and you can keep expanding that connection - one person, a family, a community, a country, a society, a culture.

To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.

If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.

I am so happy to see more and more people in this country are becoming addicted to cheese.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

I can remain on shore, paralyzed with fear, or I can raise my sails and dip and soar in the breeze.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.