Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.

...perhaps it wasn't a matter of strength so much as pliability, a willingness to let life become unpredictable and sometimes even unravel.

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable, " though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

A lot of folks that ain't saying 'ain't,' ain't eating.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain.

I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.

I don't want to be made to look like I'm 25. I'm 39. I don't have any issues with my age.