You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Death is a departure.

I couldn't imagine my life without getting to know God. He knows me, He created me. He should be known.

Quality is pride of workmanship.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman

[A person’s] utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

The power of God tenderizes and changes us, not spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines only position us to receive.

Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

I think, therefore I doubt.

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.