You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

As for biblical or religious theory, I don’t ever want to fight about the details of the story, I want to live the reality of the message.

Embrace the future with enduring hope and faith.

I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.

Whether or not Twitter makes you stupid, it certainly makes some smart people sound stupid.

I forget, is freedom of speech when it's legal to say what you want or is it when it has no consequences for some reason?

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

Trust in God and ye need not fear.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.

I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.