You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.

I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.