And what if I fail?" "Ah! Then you'll have a story to tell.

Sarah had a saying: Der gleichster veg iz ful mit shtainer." "What's it mean?" "The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

The smoothest way is sometimes full of stones.

It was like love, he thought, this crumbling chapel: it has been complicated, and therefore perfected, by what time had done to it

There is nothing wrong with you. God asks the most of those he loves best.

He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.

Life, oblivious to his grief, continued

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

When I started, (players) were making $4,000. Now, they don't get out of bed and they already make $10,000.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

You can make it if you try, push a little harder, think a little deeper.