A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose.

Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.

Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.

It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.

Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

It’s scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

Freedom of speech and of the press are essential to the enlightenment of a free people and in restraining those who wield power.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Simply put, success in LSU football is essential for the success of Louisiana State University.