You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?
You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.
I truly believed that the cost of success for us shouldn't be the cost of failure for a good friend.
Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.
I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.
Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home
I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
A good sign that an army has been around too long is that it starts getting top-heavy with officers.
Political art - not always a contradiction in terms - can destroy institutions, or eat away at them.
What you see is filtered through your beliefs. You rarely see "reality." You see your version of it.
when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom
I drive a lot of joy from being able to help others and helping put them on the path that they want.
Generally speaking, ego isn't a good thing. Humility is the most important quality in a human being.
We don't honor just to get a reward; we honor because it is the heart of God, and it is our delight.
The man or woman who doesn't forgive has forgotten the price that Christ paid for them on the Cross.
Every choice you make has a consequence, every one. It's mathematic. It cannot fail; it never fails.
We don’t LOVE our Grandmas because they look like super models. We love them because of WHO they are
Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.
Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?
The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.
Every journey toward a dream is personal, and as a result, so is the price that must be paid for it.
A long headline that really says something is more effective than a brief heading that says nothing.
Everything needs to touch your heart. Everything that touches your heart brings out the deep in you.
You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said. "I have. But not an interrupting one.
At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
The important thing is not whatever nonsense the voices are saying, but what the voices are feeling.
It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.
If you don’t know about Tumblr then you are not supposed to know about Tumblr. It’s like fight club.
Suffering is universal. it’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is
Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.
You're not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.
All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.
Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.
It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.
Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. & And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.
Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.
Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.
Jesus ... associated with the outcasts; he spoke with them, touched them, ate with them, loved them.
The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.
It has to do with seeing God. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8).
The rich fruit of spontaneity grows in the garden that is well tended by the discipline of schedule.
I both love and am terrified by Greg Van Eekhout's vision of Los Angeles. I already want to go back.
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.