When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again—the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.

The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.

The heart knows nothing except its own mind.

the heart knows nothing except its own mind

and when hecatches meoff guardand says'i love you'i catch himoff guardand say 'i need your help.

loss takes as much as love does, sometimes more

the sadness will ebbthe trouble is the time it might take

Thoughts can follow you anywhere.

you live each day one at a timeyou live every day all at onceyou live with the possibility of good-byeyou move on.

A Cue from NatureRun outside during a thunderstormThat downpour, that conquered hesitation, that exhilarationThat’s what unlonely is like

It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.

I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.

All I can do is go out there and play hard and try and help my team win, and that's what I'm going to keep doing.

The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.

Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

Identify with failures in others by listing yours.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.