When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

I drew it over my skin like a violins bow, No one would ever hear the song of my shame.

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

The world is not a rational place.

When you've set goals and dreams, you don't feel old.

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.