What if all possible pain was only the grief of truth?

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Strength means...acknowledging each of those feelings, your questions and ideas and faith and terror, and meeting what comes with the full force of your heart.

I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Strength means honoring your entire range of emotion, even your despair and heartbreak.

You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.

Death and life are, for most of us, too complex to comprehend, but Alex Lemon can pretty casually, accurately, and marvelously correlate them to heavy metal and birthday cake.

I've been melted into something too easy to spill. I make more and more of myself in order to make more and more of the baby. He takes it, this making. And somehow he's made more of me, too.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.

One very important aspect of string theory is definitely testable. That was the prediction of supersymmetry, which emerged from string theory in the early '70s.

I can't speculate on what did or did not happen. I only know what I said and what I intended to convey.

I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.

All I do is work out, oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.