You just became the most interesting person at this party. I don't think anyone here has worked an honest day in their lives.

You're so haunted by other people's futures that you forget, the only future you cannot see is your own.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

We must make humility the chief thing we admire in Him.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

To me John Coltrane was like an angel on earth. He struck me that deeply.

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.

It's a sin to bore people.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.