We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

The fall takes no time and forever.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

I'm afraid everything I was is gone and all that's left is everything I'm not.

Is this what it's like to get close to other people--you do something insane together and then you have to share everything even if you don't really want to?

Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Funny how the last thing we want the world to see is almost the first thing to show.

Everyone should know--there's no such thing as a decent human being. It's just an illusion. And when it's gone, it's really gone.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

GOD SAYS

When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...

Congratulate yourself as a good beginner. Feel proud of God for choosing you to begin the work at hand. Accept the work freely and get started. Be grateful.

Everything you do to other people affects them, and how you treat people affects them.

Courtney Love is really cool and funny. I would like to meet Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz. I think I could play their daughters.

We'll make a bunker hill of it.

In missionary work, as in all else, preparation precedes power. Encouragement to prepare while still very young can make a tremendous difference.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.