Well, it is a particular sin to permit grief for what is gone to poison the praise for what blessings remain to us.

I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods.Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

It wasn't a case of storming heaven. It was a case of letting heaven storm you.

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

Life can sometime be very hard for us and we feel that as if we are drowning in our problems. when we feel this way we only need to look up and see that there is a hand reaching out to save us.

You are capable of fulfilling all your dreams.

Insanity is a disease, and it is highly contagious.

Running is a brutal and emotional sport. It's also a simple, primal sport. As humans, on a most basic level, we get hungry, we sleep, we yearn for love, we run.

The election result is not a victory that belongs to me or my party.

You can't fear success and I think a lot of people do... I'm not like that. I'm going for it.

Even a tiny step is one step closer to where you are going.

I love the idea of a super villain that doesn't wear a cape, that doesn't wear a super suit.

I've dealt with a lot of guns over my career, so I'm getting better and better with firearms.