When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

Confidence tends to minimize the magnitude of the choice.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.

It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.

If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.

There are days now where I think, "Oh man, that would've been a great entry," but I'm putting the pen down until I clear my head, or think of another book idea.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.

I don't like looking back.